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In Corsham today

ByHeather Child September 5, 2015

Here we are at Corsham Creative Market.

Brisk business so far with sales of Alison, Jean and Shirley’s novels.

Do join us if you’re in the area

Springfield Centre, Corsham

free entry until 4pm!

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Panning for gold. Gail Swann is resting (not rusting).
ByHeather Child July 21, 2015

Gail Swann writes: Finding myself in a period of writerly pause, or to put it more succinctly, ‘stymied by having too many beginnings’, I have been filling my head with the work of others. I’ve been lucky enough to enjoy a run of cracking good reads (thanks to Nina Milton for book reviews at http://kitchentablewriters.blogspot.co.uk/p/the-kitchen-table-reading-club.html), I’ve…

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Where Can Books Take Us? Free workshop coming up
ByHeather Child February 12, 2014

It has been a busy few months since our launch in October with Bristol Women Writers members taking parts in lots of events around the Bristol area as well as knuckling down to get on with our own writing projects. (Yes, we write stuff too!) But now we’re ready to ‘go public’ again with a…

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Bury me in a Book
ByHeather Child March 11, 2014

Jean Burnett wonders if she can survive the onslaught of technology. “But how can I live here without my books?” Wrote Balthazar Bonifacius Rhodiginus in 1656. ” I really seem to myself crippled and only half myself.” Any book lover will empathize with poor Balthazar. I vividly recall my feelings of woe when my home…

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Romantic fiction: too much added sugar?
ByHeather Child December 28, 2013

By Shirley Wright My romantic streak has received a series of blows to the head recently. Last month I read A Passionate Sisterhood (Virago) by biographer and friend Kathleen Jones, and now I have to re-evaluate my life-long passion for poets like Wordsworth and Coleridge because they were, essentially, male chauvinist pigs. It’s a great…

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Short story collection: Remember me to the Bees by Judy Darley
ByHeather Child March 24, 2014

Ali Bacon reviews a new short story collection I sometimes think short story collections are like boxes of chocolates. I always enjoy the first couple but I’m quickly sated and often end up by not getting to the end (well okay that rarely happens with chocolates, but you get the picture!) I think it’s particularly true…

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Jean’s new book and #HiddenGems at Keynsham and @bristollibrary
ByAli Bacon November 7, 2022November 7, 2022

New dates for Hidden Gems! From landmine-sniffing rats to the mysterious ‘red gene’. Since just before lockdown we’ve been sharing the most amazing facts we’ve uncovered while researching our books. From the exploits of famous Italian artists to the birth of photography, the Spanish civil war and some astonishing quantum physics, our audiences always learn…

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