by Gudrun Bowers | Apr 1, 2020 | Book review
When I heard from Jeremy Knight, Curator of Horsham Museum, about the secret project dreamed up by Robin Milner Gulland, husband of Washington artist Alison Milner-Gulland, to produce a book to accompany a retrospective exhibition in honour of her 80th birthday, I was...
by Gudrun Bowers | Apr 1, 2020 | Book review
The eagerly awaited sequel to the Costa Award winning Days Without End by one of Ireland’s greatest writers and current Irish Laureate. A Thousand Moons extends the sequence of Barry’s eight novels, which touch each time on the worlds of two families – the...
by Gudrun Bowers | Apr 1, 2020 | Book review
Fatima Bhutto, born in Syria and educated in the USA and the UK, is the niece of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, and came to public attention with her memoir Songs of Blood and Sword which accused her aunt of the “moral responsibility” for her father’s...
by Gudrun Bowers | Feb 17, 2020 | Event
A fun weekday morning session for pre-schoolers with popular author / illustrator Sam Lloyd, on Tuesday 24th March at 11.30am. Sam’s event will be based around her new picture book Put Your Botty on the Potty, a brilliant, funny and fresh take on the potty...
by Gudrun Bowers | Feb 17, 2020 | Event
Tuesday 17th March 7.30pm at the bookshop Just before Mothers’ Day (on Sunday 22nd March), let’s celebrate bad mothers with Stephanie Calman. Daughter of the late well-loved humorist and cartoonist Mel Calman, Stephanie is the author of six books including the...