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Events | News | News update | Novels | PublishingBook Launch: The People’s Republic of Love
Come along to Bookhaus Bristol for the launch of The People’s Republic of Love. When: 6pm, Monday 30th March Where: Bookhaus Bristol, 4 Rope Walk, Bristol BS1 6ZJ (Wapping Wharf) Tickets cost £7 and include a glass of wine or a soft drink. Please get your ticket here. This book has been a long time…
Story Sunday makes it onto Zoom
Thanks to Suzanne McConaghy for her thoughts on our recent Story Sunday event and her tips for reading online. I was delighted to be asked to submit a thousand words for ‘Story Sunday’ at the Bristol Festival of Literature. I started writing in a flurry of enthusiasm and found I’d produced something fairly bleak –…
The allure of research – and a plagiarist uncovered
‘What beats me is how a domestic dinosaur has become a chic badge of prosperity.’ Nicola’s recent article in the FT questioned the benefits of cooking on an Aga. For her biography she has left the present day and is delving back into the eighteenth century. Here are some of her recent experiences of research….
An afternoon at Clifton Village Literary Festival
For anyone who doesn’t know Bristol, Clifton is a village in the way that Greenwich (NYC) is a village. I mean depsite proximity to the wide open spaces of the Downs, it’s part of the city, but a part with a very specific and closely guarded identity: elegant buildings, boutique shops, arty vibes. Perched close…
Children and writing don’t mix – or do they?
Jenni O’Connor, novelist, haiku poet, journalist and copywriter, is also mother to Zoe, aged four. Here she muses on the unlikely fusion between writing and parenting. “Children and writing don’t mix.” So said one famous male writer, whose name escapes me, presumably as he hastened to the haven of his oak-panelled study, slamming the door to shut…
More Banksy than Bonnets it certainly was
While we rub our hands and gloat over a very tasty bag of submissions for our next event, here’s Gail’s snapshot of Stokes Croft Writers’ carefully managed assault on the genteel cobbles of Bath. It was a steamy hot summer night on the not-so-mean streets of Bath, when a motley crew of Bristol writers came…





