by Administrator | May 22, 2020 | Quick Reads
We look back at Nottingham’s bookshops of old, and Henry Normal tells us how Sisson & Parker changed his life. Trent Bookshop opened in 1964 next to the City Ground on Pavilion Road, West Bridgford. The shop was founded by part-time teachers Stuart Mills and...
by Administrator | Nov 12, 2019 | Readers & Writers
Henry Normal’s book Strikingly Invisible is a communion with the life we share with nature. This book explores the soul we share partly with the world. We have dark moments and light. We have eternally shifting positions, freezing and thawing to those around us. The...
by Administrator | Oct 3, 2019 | Interviews
Henry Normal is researching when I call him and keen to share something he’s been reading about “We only know what 5% of the Universe is made of’ he tells me, with evident awe in his voice ‘The rest is still a mystery” This might seem like an unlikely...
by Administrator | Oct 1, 2019 | Quick Reads
Henry Normal is a writer, poet, TV and film producer, founder of the Manchester Poetry Festival and co-founder of the Nottingham Poetry Festival. In June 2017 he was awarded a special BAFTA for services to television. He was managing director of Baby Cow Productions,...
by Administrator | Jul 17, 2019 | Quick Reads
There are several trams and buses named after local men with literary connections. The following all lived in and around the bus network to which their names have been emblazoned. And yes, they are all men, our women writers have been neglectfully overlooked...