The two stores – based in Oswestry and Wirral respectively – are hosting the event ‘An Evening with Olivia Harrison, the widow of the former Beatle at the iconic St George’s Hall next month.
She is there to talk about her book ‘The Third Eye’, a unique collection of George’s personal photographs of the Beatles.
A spokesman for both bookshops said: “In The Third Eye, Olivia reveals a unique collection of George Harrison’s personal photographs of the Beatles at work and at play – many published for the first time.
“From 1963 to 1969, George Harrison travelled the world with his bandmates, camera in hand, chronicling their impossible path to stardom.
““I like cameras because you can see things in a different way,” George once said, “and you can make things look how they feel instead of how they are.”
A new collection of George Harrison’s early Beatles photographs is set to be published later this year, including a never-before-released song.
The Third Eye: Early Photographs will be released on October 8 via Ebury Spotlight, collecting more than 200 never-before-collected photographs taken by Harrison between 1963 and 1969.
Many of the images will be published for the first time, and will include Harrison’s personal photos and 8mm film stills from The Beatles’ rise to global fame, from their first trip to the US to their times in Paris, Australia, Miami, Rishikesh and Tahiti.
The collection has been compiled and curated by Olivia Harrison, the late Beatle’s widow, and will also feature an introduction by author Colm Tóibín and an afterword by Booker Prize-winning novelist George Saunders.
In an essay accompanying the collection, Olivia Harrison said: “I want to show people, from George’s unique photographic perspective during the Beatles’ early years, that moment when the whole of your life is ahead of you with unknowable possibilities.”
She added that the images in The Third Eye capture “that spirit that George’s life possessed”.
