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South London Festivals 2018

Planning is already underway for a variety of Festivals in South London in 2018 and Clapham Writers is likely to be involved in more than one. The Trustees and management committee of the Clapham Book Festival met this week to … Continue reading

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Clapham Presses

In 2016 the Clapham Book Festival explored the links between Place & the Writer, with the focus on Clapham and what seemed to be its longstanding connection with writing. To aid that discussion we identified fifty five Clapham writers of … Continue reading

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Front Page

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A page of news snippets to start the week. Clapham Book Festival The 2018 Clapham Book Festival will take place on 18th May, a date for the diaries of anyone who can get to London SW4. The venues are Omnibus … Continue reading

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Smell…

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…odour, perfume, scent. One’s olfactory sense isn’t the first that springs to mind when conjuring up a picture of a place or scene, but it can be one of the most powerful. During my recent visit to the Sierra de … Continue reading

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To Cut a Short Story Long

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‘To cut a long story short’ (Slang) Idiom, meaning to make only the final point in a long story. An elegant and cultured lady of my acquaintance, now dead, coined the inversion of that slang phrase, when describing the tendency of … Continue reading