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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...
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• Meet Kinsey Millhone
  There is something comforting in returning to old favourite characters book after book and following their lives with interest. A lot of years ago a friend introduced me to one of the best series I ha...
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• Literature Month
  As Literature Month draws to a close @LibrariesNI I am aware of so many different and varied events which have been taking place over November across many of our Branches. From Poetry to Creative Writ...
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• From Borderlands to the Empty Room with plenty of Bad Blood along the way
  My first introduction to local author Brian McGilloway was quite a few years ago at a Creative Writing Workshop which he took in Ballymena Central. It was part of a number of sessions. Brian wrote the...
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• Fascination with ScandiNoir
  I’ve just heard that in Norway there is a tradition of reading Crime Fiction over the Easter break – it is called ‘paskekrim’ and has apparently spread to include more than just novels in Norway thoug...
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• Comfort Reading
  As the dark nights grow colder the temptation is to settle down in front of the fire with a good book and a hot drink. There is something comforting in that image and we all aspire to being that perso...
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• Christmas in Middle Earth
  One memorable Christmas when I was a student, was the year my parents had moved away from where I had spent my teenage years. Visiting them that Christmas was strange because I knew nobody in the are...
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• British Book Awards
  Everytime I see a short list of books for the many awards and prizes in the literary world I skim through them to see how many of the titles – if any – I have read and then promptly add the others to...
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• Bangor Carnegie Reading Group
  Recently I was able to visit the Bangor Carnegie Reading Group meeting held on a very rainy day in The Curve, the lovely bright meeting room in Bangor Carnegie Library which doubles up as an Art Galle...
  Type: Web Page Date: 09/04/2025