We are incredibly fortunate to have Polly judge Blackpool’s first National Poetry Competition which launches during Wordpool next week. Application forms, competition and prize details will be available at the event and then posted on this blog after Mon 7 July 2014. Polly will be reading some if her work. Fri 4 July, 3pm, Central Library. […]
Interesting interview in The Guardian, particularly her thoughts on writing the first Poirot novel since Agatha Christie’s last. http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/20/sophie-hannah-poems-about-sex-agatha-christie Come have lunch with Sophie next Thursday and find out more, July 3rd 12.30pm, Central Library. Tickets £5, or £4 for Library Members (incl buffet lunch). Available from Eventbrite or any Blackpool Library.https://lunchwithsophiehannah.eventbrite.com/
After the success of our very first Twitter Book Club where we picked The Humans by Matt Haig for World Book Night we are eager to get tweet happy again for Twitter Book Club’s second outing. This time, Elizabeth is Missing by début writer Emma Healey is our hot pick and we can’t wait to […]
Blackpool Dance Development have commissioned contemporary dance company La Petite Mort to perform at Wordpool’s Family Day. La Petitie Mort brings the written word to life. Come and meet the oversized performers as they tower above the crowd in the beautiful Italian Gardens of Stanley Park, Blackpool. Stilt walkers move and dance through the space […]
Lisa Wigham is no stranger to Wordpool, having joined the festival a couple of years ago demonstrating some of her imaginative book making techniques. We are very excited to have this talented artist back as she shows some of her impressive collection of handmade books and will be running a DIY Publishing Workshop at Palatine […]
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Multi award-winning historical crime writer Lindsey Davis was born and brought up in Birmingham. She read English at Oxford, then joined the civil service, which she left in the mid-1980s. Her first published fiction was romantic serials in Woman’s Realm magazine. She started writing about the Romans with The Course of Honour, which tells the […]
We have a rather splendid collection of books by Peter Robinson on our shelves for you to bone up on before our Wordpool launch event Murder, Mystery & Martinis on Wed 2 July. Fresh in today is Children of the Revolution, Peter’s latest in the DCI Banks series. You can meet Peter, along with fellow […]
The very fabulous poet Terry Caffrey has stepped in to rescue our Friday brunch event. Always busy, Terry is just back from a poetry tour of Vietnam, Cambodia and Jordan. He is poet in residence for England’s National Football Museum and National Coal Mine,Manchester Bridgewater Hall and the Citadel Theatre! During the Olympics Terry’s composition […]
We don’t think anything gets us more excited here at Library HQ than a book delivery! Sophie Hannah’s new book The Telling Error arrived this morning. Get yours quick before they’re all taken. Even better still, when you come into your local library to pick up The Telling Error, don’t forget to get your ticket […]
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