AN evening with a local author and environmental journalist is coming up at Crediton bookshop The Bookery.

Marianne Brown will be joined in conversation with ecologist and storyteller Lisa Schneidau at 7pm on Thursday, March 20.

Ms Brown will be reading passages from her new book The Shetland Way: Community and Climate Crisis on my Father’s Islands.

A memoir, it is described as “an exploration of loss, community and the climate crisis” in the Shetland Islands. It is set mostly in Shetland, but also in Edinburgh and Okehampton.

It follows Ms Brown as she arrives in Voe, Shetland to attend her father’s funeral and gets stuck there for six months due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

An environmental journalist, she is drawn to investigate the story of a huge windfarm greenlit to export energy to the mainland which “creates rifts between neighbours, friends and even families”.

One side supports the benefit to the planet in light of global warming, while the other is concerned about the impact on struggling wildlife.

Ms Brown soon finds herself on “a transformative journey into the heart of a debate that mirrors global concerns about how we save the planet”.

Tickets cost £4 and will be redeemable against a book purchased at the event. Ms Brown will be signing copies of her book.

Everyone attending the event will be entered into a free prize draw to win a signed copy.

Lisa Schneidau is a Devon-based ecologist and storyteller and has written a series of ecology-related folk stories (English Folk Tales of Coast and Sea, River Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland, Woodland Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland and Woodland Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland).

You can buy tickets for the event at The Bookery or online by visiting: thebookery.org.uk.