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Gerie Herbert finds some wintery reading reading classics that are as popular today as they ever were – from Winnie the...
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Ahead of her appearance at The Bath Festival later this month, best-selling novelist Marian Keyes chats to Daisy Game about...
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With rolling library ladders, oak flooring, handmade wooden bookcases, Topping & Company Booksellers is one of the best bookshops in the country and one of Bath’s most cherished independents. Pay a visit and you’re likely to be offered complimentary tea or cafetière coffee while you browse through more than 57,000...
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Alex Wheatle is set to feature at the Reading is Magic festival this month, with his latest novel Cane Warriors....
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This West Country boy might have settled down amid the bright lights of London, but comedian, musician and actor Bill...
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Bath Abbey will reopen its shop to the public on Monday 15 November revealing a totally refurbished interior and a range of new displays designed to appeal to visitors and local shoppers alike. Located in the 1920s Jackson extension on the south-side of the Abbey, the newly renovated shop has...
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One miscarriage of justice is bad enough, but 738 is more than we’re capable of comprehending, says Nick Wallis. Emma...
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Celebrating music and books in a beautiful city, this year’s Bath Festival will run from 13–21 May – here we...
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Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize of Fiction, Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet imagines the short life of William Shakespeare’s only son. Millie Bruce-Watt delves into the novel and explores the parallels between two worlds battling the effects of a global pandemic In 1596, William Shakespeare’s only son, Hamnet, died from the bubonic...
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“From street copper to bouncer to bodyguard for the President of Haiti”, reads the front cover of Chris Nott’s memoir, Call...
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Reading is Magic Festival: Sunday 27 September – Friday 2 October 2020 How to Train Your Dragon and The Wizards...
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In over 30 years as a foreign affairs correspondent, Martin Bell saw major changes in the way news was reported. Emma Clegg asks about his time as a reporter, as an MP and as a UNICEF ambassador, ahead of his arrival at The Bath Festival. What’s the difference between a...