by librarians | Jun 9, 2020 | Blog
Library buildings may be closed but that doesn’t stop librarians blogging. Here’s a weekly snap shot of blog posts from Time to Read library services on Tuesday 10 June. New Today Book Bunch: Runaway Robot (Week 2: June 9th 2020) Todays selections from our...
by librarians | Jun 4, 2020 | Blog
Next week join the virtual launch tour for Chris Beckett and Alemu Tebeje’s Songs We Learn from Trees: An Anthology of Ethiopian Amharic Poetry published by Carcanet. Packed with all the wit, energy and heartache of Ethiopia this is the first ever anthology of...
by librarians | Jun 4, 2020 | Blog
Mancunian writer Okechukwu Nzelu is on the 2020 Desmond Elliot Prize shortlist with his debut novel, The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney (Dialogue Books). When asked what motivated him to tell Nnenna’s story he describes being sixteen and spotting Purple...
by librarians | Jun 4, 2020 | Blog
Four £200 writing commissions are available, as part of the ‘Kick Down the Barriers’ project in conjunction with Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery. KDTB has emerged following both the 2016 ‘Casey Review Report’ and the 2018 BBC Panorama programme that labelled...
by librarians | May 30, 2020 | Blog
Last week, Oldham Libraries were delighted to host a Facebook Live event to launch the best selling author Phaedra Patrick’s fourth novel, The Secrets of Sunshine. Phaedra chats from home with Suzanne from Oldham Libraries on publication day. Plus you can hear a...
