Alan Gibbons on Endangered Libraries

If you don’t put good books in your library, or if you lock the doors when people want to use it, less people will use your library. If you think this is obvious and doesn’t need saying, please read the following by Alan Gibbons to find out why  you should start saying it very loudly… Read all »

Vanity Booksellers

Everybody seems to know about ‘vanity publishing’ these days. From the acknowledged heights of the literary establishment to the most obscure corners of the Internet, you regularly come across people pouring scorn on those who pay to have their work published. Read all »

The Music Gym

Amongst the squash courts and practice nets at Horntye Sports Centre in Hastings is the Decoda Music Gym, an area designed for experimenting and playing with music and movement. Read all »

Grim and Gruesome

So where have we got to with fairytales for little people? I grew up in an era that was all for innovation and modernity, with a strong feminist input, so the Brothers Grimm were pretty much off the menu.

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