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Books for sale in the sunshine

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Books, books for sale!  Coffee table £2 , hard back £1, paperbacks 50 pence! It was my local south London Fete at the weekend, something I’ve blogged about before ( see Local Music ). This year was slightly different in … Continue reading

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Lin May Saeed – Bees

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I had not heard of the German born artist Lin May Saeed before going to the preview of her show Biene (Bees) at Studio Voltaire on Thursday and it’s not surprising, as this is her first institutional show. She works … Continue reading

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Thriller

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Thriller (n) – a novel, play or film with an exciting plot, typically involving crime or espionage. Long before Michael Jackson. So what makes a good thriller? Jeopardy, tension, anxiety and anticipation, all designed to elicit suspenseful excitement in the … Continue reading

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Out and about…….

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Now that this year’s Book Festival is successfully concluded Clapham Writers next outing will be later this month at the Abbeville Fete (30th June) where members of our Management Board will be running the second-hand book stall in the Church … Continue reading

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Picasso 1932 – Love, Fame, Tragedy

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‘The work that one does is a way of keeping a diary’ is the quote from the artist which begins Tate Modern’s big Summer blockbuster exhibition. This takes the visitor chronologically, month by month, through 1932, an extraordinarily productive artistic … Continue reading