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• Through the Wardrobe with CS Lewis
  Having touched on Tolkien in a recent blog I feel honour bound to move onto CS Lewis next. I live in East Belfast round the corner from the house where he was brought up. My regular dog walking route ...
  Type: Web Page Date: 14/05/2025
  
  
• 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...
  Type: Web Page Date: 09/04/2025
  
  
• 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
  
  
• 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...
  Type: Web Page Date: 09/04/2025
  
  
• Standing on the Precipice Conclave and Robert Harris
  Click play to listen to audio transcript of this post. I think one of things I like about books being made into films is that there is always a considerable delay between the book being published and ...
  Type: Web Page Date: 09/04/2025
  
  
• Highlights from Book Week NI 2022
  What a fantastic week it was! I was so fortunate to be involved in the planning of the Headline events and was able to attend all of them. What a privilege to meet so many, both participants as well ...
  Type: Web Page Date: 09/04/2025
  
  
• Martin Waddell a giant in our midst
  Click play to listen to the audio transcript of this post. I was fortunate recently to be invited to Martin Waddell’s home to chat to him about his long and prestigious career as an award winning chi...
  Type: Web Page Date: 09/04/2025
  
  
• 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...
  Type: Web Page Date: 09/04/2025
  
  
• 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...
  Type: Web Page Date: 09/04/2025
  
  
• Taylor Jenkins Reid featuring Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones and the Six
  Taylor Jenkins Reid’s books came to the fore in the UK during Lockdown, with multiple TikTok book reviews being made about The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and then Daisy Jones and the Six. It took m...
  Type: Web Page Date: 09/04/2025