Tag Archives: Books

Gallery

Books and Walking – a Literary Trail

How well do you know your famous South London writers and books? So, which arch-villain said, at the end of each adventure, ‘The world shall hear from me again!’  And where did his creator live? Or, with a more literary … Continue reading

Gallery

Word Force

This gallery contains 2 photos.

The precision, power and poetry of words. Poetry at Clapham Book Festival this year. Introduced by local poet, art critic and  editor of international poetry forum The Bow-Wow Shop, Michael Glover, our poets are Daljit Nagra and Cecilia Knapp. Michael … Continue reading

Gallery

Small Publishers

This gallery contains 2 photos.

As the London Book Fair takes place this week it might be time to take a look again at small, independent publishing houses. Clapham has a fair number of them (see Clapham Presses), of various types. The Independent Publishers Guild … Continue reading

Gallery

Through the Letterbox

This gallery contains 4 photos.

It is now just under six weeks until this year’s Clapham Book Festival takes place on May 12th in Omnibus Theatre and Clapham Library.  So publicity and promotion activity is cranking into gear.  Yesterday a fellow volunteer and I collected … Continue reading

Gallery

Crimeland

This gallery contains 1 photos.

Ever since Oedipus instigated the search for the murderer of Thebes’ previous King we have been drawn to stories of crime detection. Today there are so many sub-genres – detective fiction, the whodunnit, the forensic thriller, the legal thriller, the … Continue reading