"Work as if you live in the early days of a better world." Alasdair Gray
"Work as if you live in the early days of a better world." Alasdair Gray
If you ever wondered where the image in the header comes from, here’s the answer. Part of my job is to welcome and talk to various school groups when they vists and as part of World Book Day 2018 Corporation Road School was invited down to visit us over a 9 day period, every class …
I was so privileged to receive a reading copy of Around the World in 80 Trees from Laurence King Publishing, and it even came with a beautiful poster. Everything else I was reading had to be put on hold until I had finished this, though I could have dipped in and out of it as …
Songs for Swingin’ Lovers was the first official No. 1 album in the UK charts, reaching that position on 22nd July 1956 and was number one for a total of 3 weeks. I remember listening to this album quite a bit at my Nana’s house on a Sunday as she was a huge Sinatra fan …
I’ve had The Living Mountain sitting on my shelf for about five years now and for some reason just never got around to reading it, but now that I read a lot of children’s books I always like to read a more serious book as a sort of ‘palette cleanser’. On starting I was astounded …
Wrestliana is a complicated book, on the surface it is a biography of Toby Litt’s great-great-grandfather William Litt, but it is also an exploration of his relationship with his own father, his sons, and representations of masculinity. I was lucky enough to receive this from Galley Beggar Press to read and I really appreciate the …
As you may or may not know, opening a children’s bookshop is a wee bit of a dream of mine, and to that end I’m just going to dump ideas and thoughts on this post to keep track of my ideas before expanding each elsewhere. premises – suitable size and central – what sq ftg …