Blogs in November 2020

Coming to England: An Inspiring True Story Celebrating the Windrush Generation 18th November 2020

A story about the triumph of hope, love, and determination, Coming to England is the inspiring true story of Baroness Floella Benjamin: from Trinidad, to London as part of the Windrush generation, to the House of Lords. Follow ten-year-old...

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Paddington’s London Treasury 18th November 2020

Paddington Bear had travelled all the way from Darkest Peru when the Brown family first met him on Paddington station. Since then their lives have never been quite the same… for ordinary things become quite extraordinary when a bear...

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Girl A 18th November 2020

‘Girl A,’ she said. ‘The girl who escaped. If anyone was going to make it, it was going to be you.’ Lex Gracie doesn’t want to think about her family. She doesn’t want to think about growing up in...

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Jerusalem 16th November 2020

Alan Moore creator of Watchmen, From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Lost Girls and V for Vendetta pens a grandiose tome about his hometown of Northampton, employing an extremely wide variety of styles, including a poem and a...

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The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ 16th November 2020

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ is the first book in Sue Townsend’s brilliantly funny Adrian Mole series. Friday January 2nd I felt rotten today. It’s my mother’s fault for singing ‘My Way’ at two o’clock...

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