by Administrator | Jan 1, 2020 | Quick Reads
Narrow Marsh sits beneath St. Mary’s cliff upon which stands the Lace Market. The old thoroughfare of Narrow Marsh covered the marshy land between this cliff and Leen Side (now Canal Street), an area once notorious for its slum dwellings, diseases – and...
by Administrator | Jun 28, 2019 | Quick Reads
From Dickens, Twain, Hemingway, Wodehouse and Orwell, to Ken Follett and Will Self, many journalists have become renowned authors, and Notts has more than its share. Robert Harris, Stephen Booth, Mhari Macfarlane, T. M. Logan, Cecil Roberts, Graham Greene and J M...
by Administrator | Sep 20, 2018 | Quick Reads
1976 The Winter of the Birds by Helen Cresswell (1976) Of the fifty-plus published stories written by Nottinghamshire’s Helen Cresswell, The Winter of the Birds is believed to have been her personal favourite. It’s a humorous tale with elements of the gothic and...
