Blog Archive

Check through the Blog posts below to find our latest extended book reviews, our #TalkingLocationWith … pieces, and our views on matters of general literary interest. Search by either Location or by the Keywords you would like to come up in the results…

One Day We Had to Run: An Interview with Ming and Wah Chen

One Day We Had to Run: An Interview with Ming and Wah Chen 19th June 2021

To mark Refugee Week (14th – 20th June) our Kid’s Lit Writer in Residence had the honour of interviewing identical twins and co-authoresses Ming and Wah Chen. Their new children’s book Escape: One Day We Had to Run (Lantana Publishing 2021)...

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Talking Location With author Laurence Anholt – Literary LYME REGIS

Talking Location With author Laurence Anholt – Literary LYME REGIS 19th June 2021

#TalkingLocationWith… Author LAURENCE ANHOLT talks about literary Lyme Regis, the setting for his new murder mystery series THE MINDFUL DETECTIVE. The Mindful Detective, Vince Caine, lives in Lyme Regis and investigates in and around the region. I recently took a genealogical...

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10 Children’s and YA Books for Refugee Week

10 Children’s and YA Books for Refugee Week 18th June 2021

To mark Refugee Week (14th – 20th June 2021) our Kid’s Lit Writer in Residence has complied a booklist of 10 extraordinary, hard-hitting children’s and YA books that raise awareness of the refugee crisis. For more information about Refugee...

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Tom Benjamin talks truffles in BOLOGNA

Tom Benjamin talks truffles in BOLOGNA 18th June 2021

THE TROUBLE WITH TRUFFLES Tom Benjamin’s The Hunting Season digs up the dirt on the Italian truffle business There’s a TV advertisement for a huge Italian sofa chain, the equivalent of the UK’s DFS, in which beneath dappled light...

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Waves of Change by Rukhsanna Guidroz, author of Samira Surfs

Waves of Change by Rukhsanna Guidroz, author of Samira Surfs 17th June 2021

Five years ago, my husband had a brilliant suggestion. He thought I would enjoy reading the article “In Search for Nasima” in The Surfer’s Journal. He said it over and over until one day I did. He was right....

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