Further tales from the bookshelf
Annie Johnson reviews A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines This month I’ve pulled out an old favourite of mine from the bookshelf; A Kestrel for a Knave, by Barry Hines. Barry Hines (1939 – 2016) was ...
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Holiday booked? Holiday books
Annie Johnson reviews some good summer reads to take away with you Travelling Light by Alistair Sawday Perhaps best known as the founder of Sawday’s, the award winning travel company based in Bristol, ...
CrimeFest – a thrilling week-end
Tina Foster and Annie Johnson spend time with a murder of crime writers CrimeFest is a popular event show casing the crime-writing genre in all its gruesome glory and has become one of the biggest gat ...
The beautiful art of Calligraphy
Most of us will be familiar with the formal script often used for wedding invitations, certificates and official documents. It is an old art form that uses flat nibbed pens to create documents, perhap ...