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Pangbourne - a love affair with a gorilla Find!
28 February 2010 from Julia | Sharply observed human nature, elegantly and concisely expressed, the short stories in Jane Gardam's The People on Privilege Hill are a delight to read. The setting for one of them, Pangbourne, is a zoo-park (Howletts Wild Animal Park?), not mentioned by... Read more or Comment
Poetry dropping in Sandwich
23 February 2010 from Julia | Back in October, Helen, a member of the Cumbrian Reading Detectives team, wrote an interesting blog which drew our attention to The Embalmer's Book of Recipes by Ann Lingard. In her blog, Helen quoted Jane Gardam, and Rob pointed out that... Read more or Comment
Reading Detectives film
6 January 2010 from Ruth Harrison | Watch the film of Kent Reading Detectives' finale event.... Read more or Comment
Out of the Blue - continued
2 December 2009 from Julia | This book proved to be a compelling read. It tells the story of a teenage girl living in rural Kent during World War 2. Kitty Danby and her brother have been uprooted from London during the Blitz, and are living... Read more or Comment
Out of the Blue by Val Rutt Find!
22 November 2009 from Julia | Out of the Blue is a story of first love in wartime Kent. It is a fictional story, with imagined characters, but inspired by an actual event in June 1944, when a V1 flying bomb was shot down and exploded on... Read more or Comment
The Kent Factor Find!
17 November 2009 from Rob Illingworth | In Writing in Kent since 1900 an essay commissioned for the Kent Literature Festival 1986, Michael Baldwin jokes that there is a temptation to rate the "Kentishness" of fiction through "the prevalence of hop-poles, orchards and oasts...my own Kent, and... Read more or Comment
Grubby Tales from Beardy Ardagh Find!
12 November 2009 from Julia | I can't resist a mention for Philip Ardagh's Grubtown Tales: Stinking Rich and Just Plain Stinky, which has just won the Roald Dahl Funny Prize in the 7-14 years category. Philip Ardagh (aka Beardy Ardagh) divides his time between Tunbridge Wells and the... Read more or Comment
The Men of Kent March On Find!
29 October 2009 from Rob Illingworth | John Blanford was a soldier poet, inspired by the Kent countryside, who wrote a poem titled Penshurst. Given the themes that the Kent Reading Detectives have explored, I thought that this was another gift. Apart from the text... Read more or Comment
The Curse of Aphis Minimus Find!
16 October 2009 from Julia | Lively, witty and packed with highly relevant topical comment, despite being written 60 years ago, the novel Not on our Stars by Edward Hyams is a compelling read. The book tells the story of a young scientist, Edgar Appleton, who has... Read more or Comment (1 comments)
One True Crime Find!
15 October 2009 from Rob Illingworth | "-I've got a first edition of The Colossus, I said. Knicked it from Tonbridge Library...-Knick some poems for me, Maxine said. I promised I'd be in the glass case at Tunbridge Wells reference library that very evening." This is an... Read more or Comment (2 comments)
Finds
- Pangbourne - a love affair with a gorilla
- Out of the Blue by Val Rutt
- The Kent Factor
- Grubby Tales from Beardy Ardagh
- The Men of Kent March On
- The Curse of Aphis Minimus
- One True Crime
- Why Pick Lydden?
- From Maidstone Prison to the Wide Sargasso Sea!
- Dover- Life's a Beach
- The ideal home
- The Tramping Methodist - more tramping in Kent!
- The Small Years by Frank Kendon
- Everyone Loves Rupert Bear!
- Knole
- On the write tracks in literary Kent - Day 4
- On the write tracks in literary Kent - Day 3
- On the write tracks in literary Kent - Day 2
- On the write tracks in literary Kent Day 1
- On the write tracks in literary Kent
- Penshurst is the Place
- From Country Pursuits to the Western Front
- Edmund Blunden - echoes from Yalding church bells
- Jane Austen walk
- John Knatchbull from Quarterdeck to Gallows
- Catherine Aird
- More from the tramps .....
- Van Gogh in Ramsgate?
- Tissot A Passing Storm c1876
- The Downfall of a Reading Detective
- Male Georgian/Regency authors
- Bluestocking writers
- Sketches By Boz - We must leave town!
- If You're Going to Snodland...
- The Kent Tramp Trail
- The Altar in the Loft
- Regency and Georgian Literature with a Kent Connection
- Jane Austen and Godmersham by The Rev. S. Graham Brade-Birks
- Kent Clues!
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