by Administrator | Sep 30, 2022 | Quick Reads
It’s International Translation Day! To celebrate, here is the Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature team’s favourite books in translation. Want more? Last year we ran a series of interviews and panel talks, which you can find here. Make sure to get in touch...
by Administrator | Aug 11, 2022 | Quick Reads
It’s a wrap! Our second year of Big City Reads at Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature has come to a close. With six weeks of giving out free books in the city’s cafes, shops and cultural spaces, alongside schools and other community centres across Nottingham. We have...
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 | Feb 14, 2022 | Quick Reads
It has come to our attention at Nottingham City of Literature that Sheffield has again been attempting to lay claim to the Nottingham legend and folk-hero, Robin Hood. Many of Sheffield’s blasphemous arguments are focused on location: that Robin Hood was Robin of...
by Administrator | Jan 17, 2022 | Readers & Writers
David Amos At secondary school in the late 1960’ / early 1970’s, poetry and literature did not play a large part in my life. I was put onto science and technology courses for my O Levels which was a mistake, the subjects I was really interested in at school were in...
