Inspiring Older Readers
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Toast: the story of a boy’s hunger posted on 28 Jun 2017
It’s unlikely that you’ll find many references on this website to the literary output of celebrity chefs........
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Bradford Literature Festival 2017 posted on 26 Jun 2017
Bradford Literature Festival
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A Boy At The Hogarth Press posted on 25 Jun 2017
In 1928 public schoolboy, Richard Kennedy left Marlborough school at the age of 16 with no qualifications...
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London Radical Bookfair 2017 posted on 23 Jun 2017
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The joys of sharing books with older readers posted on 22 Jun 2017
As an ex teacher I always enjoy doing one of our ' Wild Things and Gold Rings' events with children in playgroups, nurseries and schools.
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Colette at the table: M F K Fisher posted on 21 Jun 2017
Guest writer, Alun Severn reviews the career of a writer he thinks is a 'strange, unrepeatable cross between Colette and Hemingway'.
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The Uses of Literacy posted on 20 Jun 2017
A recent article in The New Statesman reminded me that it was time to revisit some of Richard Hoggart’s 1957 classic
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Cotton Comes To Harlem posted on 18 Jun 2017
Chester Himes (1909 – 1984) frequently gets tagged with the label the ‘Black Raymond Chandler’ ...
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An Interview With Keggie Carew posted on 16 Jun 2017
An Interview With Keggie Carew
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Going back to the source and drawing from the well posted on 16 Jun 2017
The fashion for drawing on or even reinterpreting mythology seems to ebb and flow.