by Administrator | Jun 27, 2022 | Quick Reads
Anthony Burgess (25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993) was a prolific writer who produced poetry, plays and broadcasts while also building his reputation as a literary critic and linguist. He came pretty late to fiction, turning 39 when Time for a Tiger was... 
by Administrator | Jun 17, 2022 | News & Press
George Powe served in the RAF during World War II and subsequently settled in the UK. He was probably the first black councillor in the country when elected in 1963 as a Labour Party member of Long Eaton Urban District Council’s Sawley Ward. In 1989 he was elected as... 
by Administrator | Jun 1, 2022 | News & Press
We are delighted to announce that our Founding Director, Sandeep Mahal, has been honoured in the Queen’s Jubilee Awards with a well-deserved MBE for services to Literature, the Arts and Culture in Nottingham. Sandeep came on board in September 2016 and swiftly... 
by Administrator | May 18, 2022 | Quick Reads
In 1882, Nottingham Industrialist and political radical Samuel Morley noted that the new Nottingham City Library situated in what is now Nottingham Trent University’s Arkwright Building was only open to those over the age of 15. Understanding that a love of books is... 
by Administrator | May 16, 2022 | Readers & Writers
If we search our memory’s recesses, I’m sure we can all recall a time when Latin letterforms were indecipherable, abstract and complex artworks we had to learn by rote; 52 signs (upper & lower case) with no referent in the real world that could, as if by magic,... 
by Administrator | May 14, 2022 | Interviews
Catch Cara TONIGHT (Saturday 14th May) supporting Roger McGough at Lakeside Arts as part of Nottingham Poetry Festival: tickets here. Nottingham is a literary powerhouse, but it is exciting to see another powerful voice emerge from this City. Poet and creative Cara... 
by Administrator | May 9, 2022 | Quick Reads
In recent years I’ve been told my introduction to the writing scene is ironically, intrinsically poetic. I was 9 and needed a babysitter and something to distract from personal chaos, so I sat at the back of the Neville studio with a book and a bear I’d later take on... 
by Administrator | Apr 28, 2022 | Opportunities
Every day, a different exhilaration. I climbed mountains around Seoul and across on the east coast near Sokcho, poked around temples and museums, walked an average of eight miles a day, interviewed people, visited memorials. Most mornings, I’d pad across my supremely... 
by Administrator | Apr 26, 2022 | Readers & Writers
Another clairvoyant of pre-pandemic writing, Graham Caveney’s new book ‘On Agoraphobia’ shows us what it would be like if ‘Stay Home Stay Safe’ was a life-long narrative. Written pre-pandemic but fine-tuned during those days where the outside world was painted as a... 
by Administrator | Apr 8, 2022 | Quick Reads
On the 18th of March a new play, Horsemen. had its first public reading at Nottingham’s NonSuch Studios. It was a sell-out crowd. The play is a comedy of redemption, rebuilding and identity that tells the story of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse after they’ve destroyed... 
by Administrator | Apr 5, 2022 | Quick Reads
Where IS Robin Hood? Where does he live and thrive now? It sounds like a weird question: those born in the 12th Century aren’t expected to be around today. Yet he is alive, in the same way that Shakespeare’s plays, or Byron’s cantos, or Van Gogh’s paintings are still... 
by Administrator | Apr 1, 2022 | News & Press
It’s official. After much debate and controversy on the subject, experts have finally ascertained the precise provenance of poet and Pulp frontman, Jarvis Cocker. And South Yorkshire isn’t going to be happy. “We have looked at many aspects of the bespectacled oddball,... 
by Administrator | Mar 29, 2022 | Readers & Writers
In the depths of the Covid pandemic, as normal life was replaced by normal lockdown, when the highlight of any day was the one allowable trip out of the house for exercise, I would open the front door and amble up the long road to the woods, for pure escape. In air... 
by Administrator | Mar 16, 2022 | Quick Reads
What if you asked a library that eternal triple-question – ‘Who am I? Where do I come from? Where am I going?’ – how would it answer? Who am I? I am a library, a treasure-house of books, a sanctuary for study. They say of me that I am a world of books and... 
by Administrator | Mar 8, 2022 | News & Press
For this year’s International Women’s Day, we want to bring our take to #BreakTheBias by shedding light on the hidden bias in gendered language. Gendered language is language that holds social perception and an understanding that is either stereotypically masculine or...