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Readers Afternoon

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A fair-sized audience, on a hot and sunny Friday afternoon, turned out at the Omnibus Arts Theatre, for an event featuring four local writers who live and work in Clapham or very near by.  The writers had each chosen to discuss one … Continue reading

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Sunshine and flamenco guitar

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On the hottest weekend of the year so far, the ‘Reconquista‘ launch party took place in the garden of Clapham Books. Friends of the author and fellow writers gathered, as well as members of the festival going public, to celebrate … Continue reading

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In the Garden….

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…there could be a serpent and an apple tree, earthly delights, a nightingale or, during the length of ‘Omnibus Edition’, Clapham’s Literary Festival, a series of writers. On Wednesday Miss South, joint winner of the 2013 Young British Foodies Fresh … Continue reading

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Place & the Writer

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On Thursday, three Clapham writers, Elizabeth Buchan, novelist, Dr Matthew Beaumont, literary historian and Julie Anderson, your blogger, gathered at Omnibus Arts Theatre, Clapham to discuss ‘Place and the imagination – how location impacts upon the writer’. There was only … Continue reading

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The painting formerly known as…..

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…’The Arnolfini Wedding’ by Jan Van Eyck now hangs in the Sainsbury wing of the National Gallery on the first floor.  I first came across it when studying History of Art many years ago. It was painted, in oil on an … Continue reading