Comedy fans have the chance to enjoy an evening in the company of a master performer and world traveller.

Monty Python star Michael Palin will have plenty of fascinating maritime tales to tell when he regales an audience at Booka Bookshop in Oswestry about his latest book, Erebus: the Story of a Ship, later this year.

In his new work, Michael brings to life the world and voyages of HMS Erebus, from its construction in the naval dockyards of Pembroke and the part it played in Ross’ Antarctic expedition of 1839-43, to its abandonment during Franklin’s ill-fated Arctic expedition, and to its final rediscovery on the seabed in Queen Maud Gulf in 2014.

To help tell the story, Michael has travelled to various locations across the world – Tasmania, the Falklands, the Canadian Arctic – in search of local information, and to experience at first hand the terrain and the conditions that would have confronted Erebus and her crew.

Illustrated with maps, paintings and engravings, the book is a wonderfully evocative, an epic account of a ship whose whereabouts had been a mystery for over a century and a half.

Booka Bookshop will welcome Michael to town on Wednesday, October 3 at 7.30pm. The doors will open at 6.45pm for the event.

Tickets are £20 for one person or £30 for two, along with a signed copy of the book.

for more information, or to book online, visit www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-with-michael-palin-tickets-46761981345#tickets

Tickets are also available at the shop, which is located on Church Street.

For more information on forthcoming events at the shop, visit www.bookabookshop.co.uk/events