by Administrator | Sep 5, 2020 | Quick Reads
Where Broadway Cinema now stands was the Broad Street Wesleyan Chapel. Erected in 1837 with its impressive Corinthian columns, the venue witnessed the conversion of a fifteen-year-old pawnbroker’s apprentice called William Booth. He later wrote ‘Darkest England and...
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 | Sep 16, 2019 | Quick Reads
Poetry is not in short supply in Notts this autumn! After the Workhouse Poetry Festival in Southwell, until 22nd September, we have the Inspire Poetry Festival. And then it will be time for the crazy poetry fest evening at Nottingham Playhouse on National Poetry Day,...
by Administrator | Oct 26, 2018 | Quick Reads
1991 Cutting Edge by John Harvey (1991) Insightful and compassionate with fine characterisation and a solid plot, Cutting Edge is another highlight of John Harvey’s Resnick series. There’s a slasher at large, brutally targeting hospital staff in inner city Nottingham....
by Administrator | Oct 19, 2018 | Quick Reads
1988 A Flight of Angels by Geoffrey Trease (1988) Set in the network of caves beneath Nottingham, A Flight of Angels tells of a group of school friends and how their class project became an attempt to solve a 400-year-old mystery. Trease’s knowledge of Nottingham and...