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Over 1800 beers featured in CAMRA’s new Good Bottled Beer Guide
CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale, has launched the new edition of its famous Good Bottled Beer Guide, which this time features over 1800 bottle-conditioned beers.
Book Review – Birmingham: Then and Now by Alan Clawley
Published on 1 May, 2013 at 8:53 in Architecture, Birmingham, Books, Environment, Local history | | No Comments
Andy Goff has finally received his copy of Birmingham: Then and Now. He likes it a lot.
The Amazing World of Amazon: Read All About It
Will we have a world without books? asks Richard Lutz as he sees another bookshop shut down?
CAMRA book highlights Britain’s Best Real Heritage Pubs
A new publication from CAMRA, The Campaign for Real Ale, highlights the hidden gems of British pub architecture with 270 pub interiors of outstanding historic interest.
Readings and free books for World Book Night Bloxwich
The 23rd of April is Shakespeare’s birthday and St George’s Day, so what better day to pop into Bloxwich Library for a free book (or to borrow one!)
Closed for good – The last chapter of the Birmingham Library story
Published on 31 Mar, 2013 at 9:37 in Architecture, Birmingham, Books, Environment, Open Government, Property Press, The Debate | | 2 Comments
Alan Clawley on the impending closure of Birmingham Central Library in June - but ideas are still being proposed for its future
Café Poetry: ‘and then came the rain’
Published on 29 Mar, 2013 at 10:07 in Books, Moseley and Kings Heath, Poetry, What's on, Workshops | | No Comments
With the age of literary correspondence dying, it seems more important than ever to provide spaces of warmth and comfort in which writers can not only retreat
Hexham Book Festival announces 2013 programme
The eighth annual Hexham Book Festival, which will take place this year from 24 April to 2 May, has just announced its line-up, with a variety of writers offering events blending words, stories and ideas.
Halfmoon ramble & write…
What better way to celebrate the potential arrival of warmer months than with a Halfmoon Walking & Writing Workshop over Cannock Chase.
Aku & Kamu set to appear in animated television series
Birmingham based children’s publisher Aku & Kamu is celebrating the transition of their flagship characters onto the small screen
Birmingham – Then and Now
Published on 8 Mar, 2013 at 21:46 in Architecture, Birmingham, Books, Features, Local history, Politics, Property Press | | No Comments
Alan Clawley has published a book in a popular series.
Words presents Robert Ronsson and Fiona Joseph
Words - Bromsgrove’s Literary Society - presents the new work of two local writers, Robert Ronsson and Fiona Joseph at Artrix
The Anatomy of Melancholy
First stage adaptation of Robert Burton’s 1,500 page “first self help manual” published in 1621
The economics of killing
Published on 22 Feb, 2013 at 9:06 in Books, Most recent, Warwick, What's on, Workshops | | No Comments
Author Vijay Mehta, Chair of Uniting for Peace, is giving a talk on his book on 5th March 2013 at University of Warwick
Readathon day for Olympic Ellie
Published on 12 Feb, 2013 at 9:08 in Books, Education, Most recent, Olympics, Swimming, West Midlands | | No Comments
Swimming sensation Ellie Simmonds OBE was guest of honour when she went back to her old school in Aldridge to meet marathon readers.
National Libraries Day free event
Coventry University’s Lanchester Library will be hosting a free event to highlight the many different facets of what libraries today are able to offer visitors.
“I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
Laurence Inman on biographers, biographies and a number 17 bus.
Aldridge students get stuck into books
Young bookworms are helping to add a new chapter to their school’s fundraising activities by taking part in a massive readathon.
Leonard Lord: The biography of a Brummie tycoon
Quite apart from being the man who really made the Mini, Birmingham tycoon, Leonard Lord, was, arguably, the most important British industrialist of the latter half of the twentieth century.