Inspiring Older Readers
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The archaeology of working class writing : part seven Flora Thompson posted on 28 Feb 2017
The first half a dozen articles in the series have focused largely on writers that have virtually no public profile
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The Poet Assassinated posted on 27 Feb 2017
The poetry and prose of Guillaume Apollinaire is thought of as one of the seminal bodies of work in the early years of the twentieth century.
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Spike Island posted on 25 Feb 2017
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn, reads Philip Hoare's history of 'the extraordinary quarter-mile long neo-gothic Royal Victoria Military Hospital'
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An Interview With Kerry Hadley-Pryce posted on 24 Feb 2017
An Interview With Kerry Hadley-Pryce
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We All Sleep Under The Same Stars posted on 24 Feb 2017
This booklet, produced by The Letterpress Project includes poems and illustrations produced by Year 6 Pupils and responses to the poems..
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Ten Years In An Open Necked Shirt and other poems posted on 23 Feb 2017
My time spent in punk music venues in the second half of the 1970s produced a number of moments I'll never forget.
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Wouldn't you like to be a librarian? posted on 22 Feb 2017
I've lost count of the number of people who have asked me this over the years.
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To Exercise Our Talents : The democratization of writing in Britain posted on 21 Feb 2017
This is one of those very rare things – a book that is both a remarkable piece of literary research and an accessible and enjoyable read.
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The Book of Tea posted on 19 Feb 2017
When I was a child in the late 1950s and early 1960s one of the few things we thought we knew about the mysterious East ..
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Hospice Journeys posted on 19 Feb 2017
I always enjoy talking about books with patients and staff at St Richards Hospice in Worcester.