Word on the Street – Wordpool Festival’s the Place to be This Week
The big Issue are running a competition to win Festival Passes
How To Make The Grade in Self Publishing
https://blackpoollibrary.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/dan-and-karen.jpg With the rise of successful self-publishing, it will definitely be worth checking out Dan Worsley & Karen Charlton’s discussion ‘How to make the grade in self-publishing’. Tickets are selling fast for this event so don’t leave it too late to book yours! https://blackpoolwordpool.wordpress.com/wordpoolprogramme/
Colette Snowden – be one of the first to review The Secret To Not Drowning
It’s not often you get the chance to hear all about a debut novel from the author and buy a signed copy a week before the publishing date. But you can be one of the first to do this at Wordpool as Colette Snowden will be talking about her stunning new book about emotional abuse […]
Elly Griffiths is Central Library’s Crime Reading Club Pick
Blackpool’s Central Library Crime Reading Group meet on the first Tuesday on every month, 10.30-11.30am, and they know what makes a good crime novel. So we were delighted when Elly Griffiths, one of their favourite writers, agreed to return to Blackpool for this year’s Wordpool. Elly appeared at the festival in 2013 and her friendly […]
Tasha Kavanagh, did you know…
Tasha Kavanagh worked in film editing for 10 years, on features including ‘Twelve Monkeys’, ‘Seven Years in Tibet’ and ‘The Talented Mr Ripley’. She has an MA in Creative Writing from UEA. She is 45, lives in Hertfordshire with her family and THINGS WE HAVE IN COMMON is her first novel. read Central Library’s Team […]
Ali Shaw on his soon to be released third novel The Trees
“The Trees is about an enchanted forest that appears in the blink of an eye, all over the world, overgrowing and destroying everything that stands before it. It’s as if several centuries of ruin and natural reclamation have happened in an instant. The story follows a hopeless, cowardly Englishman whose estranged wife is in Ireland. […]
The Desmond Elliott Prize #DiscoverADebut
Celebrating the best in debut fiction, The Desmond Elliott Prize is the UK’s most prestigious award for first time novelists. Winners will walk away with £10,000 for the most compelling narrative accompanied with an arresting character. This year’s shortlisted finalists are Claire Fuller, Carys Bray & Emma Healey. I think it’s time we added Claire Fuller […]
A Song for Issy Bradley – A Review
Since our Wordpool displays popped up across Blackpool Libraries, we’ve been inundated with praise for our Wordpool authors. Debut novelist Carys Bray seems to be developing quite the fan base in Blackpool with recommendations for her book, A Song for Issy Bradley, flooding in. Here’s what one of our readers thought.. This is a deeply […]
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