Simon Barraclough launches Los Alamos Mon Amour at Foyles Bookshop

Please come along to help Simon launch his first collection Los Alamos Mon Amour

Thursday April 10th The Gallery Foyles Bookshop 113-119 Charing Cross Road 6.30 p.m. to 8.30 p.m.

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?Sharing with other admirers of the late Michael Donaghy a winning propensity for using mythical [...]

Wales Book of the Year 2008 Long List

Many congratulations to Salt author Carys Davies, whose book of short stories Some New Ambush has been selected as one of ten books on the Wales Book of the Year 2008 . Over 200 entries were received from which 7 novels, 1 memoir, 1 book of poetry and 1 short story collection made it [...]

Salt Book Bags Appear in The Foundling Museum

Salt book bags caught on camera at Vanessa Gebbie’s sensational launch at The Foundling Museum .

Salt Book Bags

Modelled by author Elizabeth Baines and Jen Hamilton-Emery .

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'Bloomsbury & British Theatre' Signing

Here is a slide show of photos taken at the signing of ‘Bloomsbury & British Theatre’, which took place on the 8th March at Heffers book shop in Cambridge. Author Tim Cribb and special guest Sir Ian McKellen (who wrote the book’s introduction) described the impact of the Marlowe Society on British theatre to [...]

Sarah Bower reviews Padrika Tarrant on Ink, Sweat & Tears

Broken Things by Padrika Tarrant

Reviewed by Sarah Bower

Padrika Tarrant is a familiar face to regulars at Norwich?s Cafe Writers evenings. I almost wrote, a familiar voice, but that would have been misleading. Because, as this first collection of stories proves, there is nothing familiar about her [...]

Muses: the new trading card game in development

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Tim Cribb launches ?Bloomsbury and British Theatre? with Sir Ian McKellen

Tim Cribb launching Bloomsbury and British Theatre

Foreground: Tim Cribb (left), Sir Ian McKellen Background: Chris Hamilton-Emery, John Skelton and Jen Hamilton-Emery

Tim Cribb signs copies of his new book Bloomsbury and British Theatre in Heffers, Cambridge on a rain swept, stormy night 11th March 2007.

Sir Ian McKellen

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Slideshow of the Grand, Brighton (and piers) as we visited the IPA awards

Some snapshots of our whistle stop tour of Brighton for the IPA award ceremony. We took the children and had a fantastic time. Cameron wasn’t well, and in the early morning ended up sleep across my neck before trying to retch in my mouth. Vomit in the gob experiences are always a [...]

Independent publishing picks its champions

IPA awards

The Independent Publishers Guild is proud to announce the eleven winners of the 2008 Independent Publishing Awards.

The eleven prize winners received their Independent Publishing Awards at a gala dinner in Brighton on Saturday 8th March, hosted by Hardeep Singh Kohli. The awards, now in their second [...]