by Administrator | Jan 10, 2022 | Readers & Writers
When I was growing up in Kenya, a normal evening meant sitting on low stools telling folktales. Everyone was expected to tell a story from the wide repertoire you had acquired over the years. If you couldn’t think of any, you were allowed to make up your own. The...
by Administrator | Apr 4, 2021 | Readers & Writers
During lockdown, we’ve all found inventive ways of coping with our enforced solitude. From baking bread to learning a language, we’ve all experimented with different forms of distraction, now the pubs and restaurants are closed. But one trend that seems to be growing...
by Administrator | Feb 8, 2021 | Interviews
Norma Charles is undoubtedly a woman of many talents and trades: since moving to the UK from Jamaica in 1959 she has worked as a nurse, lab technician, social worker and practice teacher, and now, at the age of 81, children’s author. Foley Crow: Friend or Foe? is the...
by Administrator | Dec 21, 2020 | Quick Reads
Spinning life’s curiosities into fiction, Sara Jane Potter writes dark, comic literary novels. Sara studied psychology, works for a mental health trust in Nottingham, and oil-paints to chill out. Here she talks about the long journey to publication, and asks if the...
by Administrator | Feb 9, 2018 | Readers & Writers
When I used to read to my two boys, I was especially keen on nonsense poetry. My role models were Spike Milligan, Dr Seuss, and the daddy of them all, Edward Lear. There have been many lawyers who moonlight as authors so I think it is a natural progression of sorts....
