The Meteorites Event with Helen Gordon - Tuesday 18th March 2025

Join us in the bookshop to hear Helen Gordon talk about her fascinating new book, The Meteorites!

6.30pm on Tuesday 18th March at Golden Hare Book, 68 St Stephen Street, EH3 5AQ.

Buy a copy of The Meteorites and receive free entry to our event, or choose our Ticket-Only option for £5 (which can be used towards a purchase of the book at the event).

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About The Meteorites From your window you can see the stars and distant planets: light years away, it's easy to think that our existences and theirs will never intersect. Yet meteorites - mysterious, irregular rocks of sometimes immense value - connect us with the vastness of the universe. They may have brought the first life to our planet, and today they still reveal extraordinary scientific insights.

Helen Gordon reveals the fascinating stories of fallen meteorites and the lives they've touched - from collectors to kings, scientists to farmers. She meets amateur astronomers and gem dealers, goes meteorite hunting across rooftops and learns what objects moving through space can tell us about the fragility of life on Earth.

About Helen Gordon Helen Gordon is a writer and natural historian. Her books include Being a Writer and Notes from Deep Time, and a novel, Landfall. She has written for the 1843 magazine, the Guardian, and Wired, was an editor at Granta, and teaches Creative Writing at the University of Hertfordshire.