by Administrator | Dec 11, 2020 | Quick Reads
DB: David Belbin, Author; Creative Writing lecturer and former trustee of Nottingham Playhouse / PH: Pippa Hennessy; former development director at Nottingham Writers’ Studio / CA: Catharine Arnold; Writer, former councillor and Sheriff of Nottingham...
by Administrator | Dec 8, 2020 | Quick Reads
The sign over the doorway reads Libraries are for Everyone! Well, who’s ‘everyone’? I find it usually depends on who you ask, and they don’t always mean me. But the new library is a step-up from the old one, and we’ve all been given leaflets at school encouraging us...
by Administrator | Dec 7, 2020 | Quick Reads
‘Books have their own fates’: Walter Benjamin ‘Unpacking My Library’ It was the smell that first seduced me, a heady hit of fusty rooms and freshly polished wood, a smell both familiar and strange. Traces of almond catch the back of the throat,...
by Administrator | Dec 7, 2020 | Quick Reads
It goes without saying that we’re living through historic times of extreme uncertainty. We’re all either fully locked down, shielding or affected by the three-tier system. Whilst anticipating the New Central Library, this piece also touches on my leaving London for...
