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• Robert Harris
  In my opinion Robert Harris as an author is a force to be reckoned with - I first read Pompeii, one of his early books, about the days before the tragic eruption of Vesuvius and was vividly transporte...
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• Reading is our Superpower
  We all know how important reading is for children. Learning to read is what they go to school for, isn’t it? Well actually – if your child has not been introduced to books and stories well before they...
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• Reading Far and Wide
  Like many people who are readers I am also keen on creative writing and belong to a Writing Group near my home. One thing I have heard said is that the best training for being able to write yourself i...
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• Read Around The World
  I have the dubious distinction of having failed History at GCSE level twice! I scraped through the Geography exam but in hindsight I can honestly say that any knowledge and understanding I have now of...
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• Quirky Reads
  One definition of ‘quirky’ is something that is “unusual in especially an interesting or appealing way” and anyone who knows me will know that I have a slightly ‘quirky’ sense of humour. Of course th...
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• No Spoilers Here
  I’m sure that, like me, some of you have been bingeing on series on TV over the holidays - the weather was so awful that it was the best option much of the time. As usual there was a plethora of offer...
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• New Emerging Talent
  Recently I have been reading a lot of local authors. The Belfast Book festival and the John Hewitt Summer School are brilliant at championing emerging as well as established authors and I am amazed at...
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• Meet the author Sheena Wilkinson
  I met up with local author Sheena Wilkinson in Magherafelt Library recently. Her award-winning children’s books range from pony stories to historical fiction with a popular trilogy based round Irish h...
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• Meet the author Graeme Simsion
  I love meeting authors and recently had the exciting honour of meeting Australian author Graeme Simsion and his wife Anne Buist in Belfast Central Library.They were travelling through Belfast on their...
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• Meet the author - Brian Bilston - Poetry is NOT Dead
  I recently had the pleasure of sitting down in Magherafelt Library for a chat with Brian Bilston, the unofficial poet laureate of Twitter as he was dubbed during Lockdown. Listen to the interview by c...
  Type: Web Page Date: 09/04/2025