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  • Books Made Of Paper

    A paper book is a wondrous thing No batteries are needed You can shelve it for a hundred years Then take it down and read it.   You can read it in the bath tub You can read it on the train You can read it when the sun is bright You can read it […]

  • Out of This World

    Margaret Atwood, Kazuo Ishiguro, George Orwell, Doris Lessing, Jonathan Swift. What have these writers got in common? One answer is that they are all writers of science fiction…..yet none would feature in most lists of science fiction writers and in bookshops and libraries you are unlikely to find them in the science fiction section. In […]

  • World Book Day Books and children of fathers in prison

    As enthusiastic supporters of World Book Day we are involved with several local schools and always tend to order too many copies of each yearly crop of fantastic WBD titles. After all, the last thing we ever want to do is to run out! It does mean that after the dust has settled on the […]