by Administrator | Sep 6, 2021 | Readers & Writers
Focus and motivation are two friends I don’t hear much from these days. Somehow lockdown makes a blank page emptier, daily word counts unobtainable and tea breaks half-hourly. Remember March 2020? The Before. The Brink. It brought us a most unwelcome, but necessary,...
by Administrator | Jan 27, 2021 | Quick Reads
E-Books The Oak National Academy has set up a new Virtual School Library, featuring a different author each week – Jacqueline Wilson is the first. One of the author’s books is available as an e-book, and there are video interviews to support....
by Administrator | Jun 23, 2020 | Quick Reads
The lockdown started so fast that it caught us by surprise. Still, we realised the importance of literature and information that we were bringing to our audience, so there was basically no way that we could stop in our tracks. Like most institutions, we immediately...
by Administrator | Jun 17, 2020 | Quick Reads
Mandatory quarantine surprised us in mid-March. Our eight-person team working in the Kraków Festival Office, an operator of the Krakow UNESCO City of Literature title has been separated not only from the daily routine, but also from each other. Immediately it turned...
by Administrator | Jun 14, 2020 | Quick Reads
When the lockdown was announced, what was the effect on events and The Bookcase shop? We had just had a couple of very large events which we don’t normally do at that time of year, so it was very lucky that we managed those before the lockdown. At first I closed the...
