by Administrator | Jan 8, 2021 | Quick Reads
St Ann’s was “situated in a broad valley, bounded to the south by dour Sneinton; to the north by still elegant, affluent Mapperley Park; to the east a no man’s land, suburbs of a suburb, the giant Gedling colliery and a scampi belt of villages – and to the west the...
by Administrator | May 29, 2020 | Quick Reads
This week’s literary location is Nottingham’s oldest gay bar, the New Foresters, off Glasshouse Street, a “community centre with a liquor licence”. New Foresters boasts a LGBTQIA-friendly environment that allows people from all walks of life to integrate. Formerly The...
by Administrator | Dec 17, 2019 | Quick Reads
Alan Sillitoe is Nottingham’s angriest young man. Arthur Seaton’s bad behaviour in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is one of the most famous literary examples that depict young men experiencing the liberation postwar Britain brought. A close second, though, is...
by Administrator | Sep 28, 2018 | Quick Reads
1979 In a Strange Land by Stanley Middleton (1979) One of Stanley Middleton’s finest works, In a Strange Land observes the absurdities of life and the weight of death. As in Harris’s Requiem the novel’s hero is both a teacher and a talented man-of-music whose everyday...
by Administrator | Aug 23, 2018 | Quick Reads
1964 Anarchy 38, Freedom Press (1964) Anarchy was a monthly journal that ran for more than ten years. In 1964 there was a Nottingham issue which included amongst its contributors Alan Sillitoe (with a piece entitled Poor People), Philip Callow (on Nottingham United),...
