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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)
Why Pick Lydden? Find!
15 October 2009 from Rob Illingworth | I couldn't resist recording Honor Wyatt & George Ellidge's Why pick on us? as a find. Their son is Robert Wyatt whose music I have been listening to since my teens. At 47, George Ellidge was diagnosed with multiple... Read more or Comment
From Maidstone Prison to the Wide Sargasso Sea! Find!
11 October 2009 from Julia | An article in this week's Kent Messenger* has alerted us to evidence that a former Maidstone pub may have been the birthplace of Jean Rhys' award winning book The Wide Sargasso Sea! Jean Rhys took many years to write The Wide Sargasso Sea, which was... Read more or Comment (8 comments)
Dover- Life's a Beach Find!
9 October 2009 from Rob Illingworth | To my surprise, I've come across another 1st world war poet & novelist with strong Kent connections. Richard Aldington was born in Portsmouth, but spent a significant part of his youth in Dover. "I hate that town," he... Read more or Comment
The ideal home Find!
5 October 2009 from Rob Illingworth | Victor Canning was a prolific author of thrillers & humorous novels. One of the latter is Mr Finchley Takes the Road. We don't have a copy of this book in Kent Libraries & Archives, but it is available as a... Read more or Comment (2 comments)
The Tramping Methodist - more tramping in Kent! Find!
4 October 2009 from Julia | After a follower on the BBC Radio Kent website drew our attention to the author Sheila Kaye-Smith, another literary search was set in motion. I confess I had not heard of Kaye-Smith before, but was intrigued to find out more.... Read more or Comment (1 comments)
The Small Years by Frank Kendon Find!
4 October 2009 from Julia | The Small Years is a clear, straightforward, and beautifully expressed account of Frank Kendon's memories of his early childhood in rural Kent. He was born in 1893, and grew up in a school founded by his grandfather, in a small... Read more or Comment
Everyone Loves Rupert Bear! Find!
3 October 2009 from Michelle | Another Find! From our Visit Kent informers! http://www.visitkent.co.uk Rupert Bear was created in Canterbury! You can celebrate him and his literary connections by joining Rupert and his Chums in their very own museum - full of adventure and surprises! Find out about... Read more or Comment
Knole Find!
3 October 2009 from Michelle | Another Find! From our Visit Kent informers! http://www.visitkent.co.uk Knole Knole is set at the heart of a 1000 acre deer park, the only remaining medieval deer park in Kent, where Sika & Fallow deer roam freely amongst ancient oak, beech... Read more or Comment
On the write tracks in literary Kent - Day 4 Find!
3 October 2009 from Michelle | On the write tracks in literary Kent Fire your imagination Day Four If you're feeling romantic head for Penshurst Place, Penshurst, one-time home of Sir Philip Sidney the charismatic Elizabethan courtier and poet. Mortally wounded in battle, he selflessly... Read more or Comment
On the write tracks in literary Kent - Day 3 Find!
3 October 2009 from Michelle | On the write tracks in literary Kent Fire your imagination Come and be inspired - like so many great writers - by Kent's idyllic rural landscapes, captivating cities, castles and gardens. Day Three This morning share the elegant surrounds... Read more or Comment
On the write tracks in literary Kent - Day 2 Find!
3 October 2009 from Michelle | On the write tracks in literary Kent Fire your imagination Come and be inspired - like so many great writers - by Kent's idyllic rural landscapes, captivating cities, castles and gardens. Day Two Today take a tip from Geoffrey... Read more or Comment
On the write tracks in literary Kent Day 1 Find!
3 October 2009 from Michelle | On the write tracks in literary Kent Fire your imagination Come and be inspired - like so many great writers - by Kent's idyllic rural landscapes, captivating cities, castles and gardens. Day One Start you literary tour with Charles... Read more or Comment
On the write tracks in literary Kent Find!
3 October 2009 from Michelle | Hi Folks, I have been sent by our informers at Vist Kent a 4 day Kent Literary Tour. Which you can access by logging on to the Visit Kent website http://www.visitkent.co.uk/ or by following my next 4 blogs! It... Read more or Comment
A Special Thank You to Viscount De L'Isle
3 October 2009 from Michelle | The Kent Reading Detective Team would like to say a special Thank You to Viscount De L'Isle, owner of Penshurst Place, for allowing us to use the beautiful Penshurst Place and Gardens for the Finale venue of the Kent Reading... Read more or Comment
Penshurst Place and Gardens Kent Finale!
3 October 2009 from Michelle | The finale of the Kent Reading Detectives will be at the fantastic Penshurst Place and Gardens http://www.penshurstplace.com. Where we will be given a fantastic house tour and lecture on Penshurt's Literary connections. Penshurst Place has been acting as one our informers... Read more or Comment
Penshurst is the Place Find!
29 September 2009 from Rob Illingworth | For generations, poets have been inspired by the literary and historical legacy of Penshurst Place. Robert Southey captured the essence of this inspiration in his poem. For a Tablet at Penshurst. http://www.poetry-love-poems.com/southey/for-a-tablet-at-penshurst.php He also makes a suggestion: ...if such... Read more or Comment (3 comments)
Denton Welch
28 September 2009 from Vivian Branson | I Left My Grandfather's House - an interesting book with a very abrubt end. Can't say I took to DW very much but his powers of observation are wonderful. He remarks on the wind through the telegraph wires which made... Read more or Comment (1 comments)
45 London Road Sevenoaks
28 September 2009 from Vivian Branson | Hi Rob a friend of mine owns that Art Shop. I will ask her if she realises how important it is! Vivian... Read more or Comment (1 comments)
From Country Pursuits to the Western Front Find!
27 September 2009 from Julia | Perhaps because the anti-war sentiments of the 'war poets' are so strong, their other writing is sometimes overlooked. I was not aware before of Siegfried Sassoon's fictionalised autobiography, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston, nor did I know that Sassoon grew... Read more or Comment
Edmund Blunden - echoes from Yalding church bells Find!
27 September 2009 from Julia | Browsing along the poetry shelves in the Centre for Kentish Studies, I found several books with poems by Edmund Blunden, who, I discovered, spent much of his childhood in the village of Yalding. Throughout his life he maintained a deep... Read more or Comment (1 comments)
Jane Austen walk Find!
27 September 2009 from Ruth Harrison | A circular walk in Tonbridge explores the family links to Jane Austen.... Read more or Comment
John Knatchbull from Quarterdeck to Gallows Find!
24 September 2009 from Lesley | by Colin Roderick includes the narrative written by John Knatchbull himself in 1844 in the condemned cell during the last few weeks of his life. Born in 1787 in Provender, John Knatchbull was the 3rd son of Sir Edward Knatchbull... Read more or Comment
Catherine Aird Find!
24 September 2009 from Heather | CATHERINE AIRD is the author of more than twenty crime novels and short story collections, most of which feature Detective Chief Inspector CD Sloan. She holds an honorary MA from the University of Kent and was made an MBE. Her... Read more or Comment
To Penshurst
24 September 2009 from Rob Illingworth | http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/jonson/penshurst.htm I don't think that I have the cheek to claim the poem "To Penshurst" by Ben Jonson as a "find." One or two other folks have found it already. But it is worth emphasising that this is a poem that... Read more or Comment
More from the tramps ..... Find!
23 September 2009 from Julia | By complete surprise, One Green Field by Edward Thomas dropped out of my newspaper on Saturday. I found this a delight to read, and definitely a find for me, as I had not read any of Thomas's prose before. It is an acutely... Read more or Comment
Cumbria Find with a Kent Connection - Deborah in Langdale Find!
23 September 2009 from Robert | The Cumbria team has found a book with a Folkestone connection. The following is the blog Cumbria put on. This fictional story of two sisters, Deborah and Enid Machell, was written by E. M. Ward and published in 1933. The story... Read more or Comment
Van Gogh in Ramsgate? Find!
23 September 2009 from Robert | Hi Folks below is an excerpt from the website www.churchillhouse.com about Van Gogh links to Kent. ...Did you know that Vincent Van Gogh painted our language school, Churchill House? To be perfectly correct, he didn't paint it - he sketched... Read more or Comment (2 comments)
Tissot A Passing Storm c1876 Find!
23 September 2009 from Robert | A fantastic book celebration the artist Tissot and his Kent connections is by Christopher Wood called 'Tissot'. Pg 88 and 89 highlight the paintings ' A Passing Storm' and 'Room Overlooking the Harbour' both which have a fantastic view of... Read more or Comment (1 comments)
The Downfall of a Reading Detective Find!
22 September 2009 from Rob Illingworth | To the memory of Mrs Lefroy was the title of a poem by Jane Austen, who became one of the most celebrated authors of all time. http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-the-memory-of-mrs-lefroy-who-died-dec-r-16-my/ It is also the title of a poem by Samuel Egerton... Read more or Comment
Male Georgian/Regency authors Find!
22 September 2009 from Michelle | Hi Super Sleuths, Here is a FIND! Regency and Georgian Literature with a Kent Connection which Rob Illingworth has dug up. They tie in nicely with our Jane Austen heritage link. Male Georgian/Regency authors whose writings are... Read more or Comment
Bluestocking writers Find!
22 September 2009 from Michelle | Hi Super Sleuths, Here is a FIND! Regency and Georgian Literature with a Kent Connection which Rob Illingworth has dug up. They tie in nicely with our Jane Austen heritage link. "Bluestocking" writers with strong Kent connections:... Read more or Comment
Vicesimus Knox
22 September 2009 from Michelle | Hi Super Sleuths, Here is a FIND! Regency and Georgian Literature with a Kent Connection which Rob Illingworth has dug up. They tie in nicely with our Jane Austen heritage link. Vicesimus Knox: A headmaster of Tonbridge... Read more or Comment
The Knatchbull/ Knatchbull-Hugesson family
22 September 2009 from Michelle | Hi Super Sleuths, Here is a FIND! Regency and Georgian Literature with a Kent Connection which Rob Illingworth has dug up. They tie in nicely with our Jane Austen heritage link. The Knatchbull/ Knatchbull-Hugesson family- There is... Read more or Comment
Anne Lefroy- Friend & Mentor to Jane Austen
22 September 2009 from Michelle | Hi Super Sleuths, Here is a FIND! Regency and Georgian Literature with a Kent Connection which Rob Illingworth has dug up. They tie in nicely with our Jane Austen heritage link. Anne Lefroy nee Brydges- friend &... Read more or Comment
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
22 September 2009 from Michelle | Hi Reading Detectives, Another Kent Find sent in by Penshurst Place and Gardens http://www.penshurstplace.com/ The following is an excerpt from the author Margaret Wilson about the Penshurst literary connections to Kent. Another writer who had personal experience... Read more or Comment
Humphrey Davy - Scientific Experiments and Poetry?
22 September 2009 from Michelle | Hi Reading Detectives, Another Kent Find sent in by Penshurst Place and Gardens http://www.penshurstplace.com/ The following is an excerpt from the author Margaret Wilson about the Penshurst literary connections to Kent. A rather surprising poem in 1811 was... Read more or Comment
Charlotte Smith and Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges - Sonnets
22 September 2009 from Michelle | Hi Reading Detectives, Another Kent Find sent in by Penshurst Place and Gardens http://www.penshurstplace.com/ The following is an excerpt from the author Margaret Wilson about the Penshurst literary connections to Kent. In the late 18th century Charlotte Smith, the... Read more or Comment
Sir Philip Sidney - Penshurst and Poetry
22 September 2009 from Michelle | Hi Reading Detectives, Another Kent Find! Sent in by Penshurst Place and Gardens http://www.penshurstplace.com/ The following is an excerpt from the author Margaret Wilson about the Penshurst literary connections to Kent. William Cowper in 'The Task' (1785) mentions... Read more or Comment
Penshurst and Poetry
22 September 2009 from Michelle | I have been contacted by Penshurst Place and Gardens about the fantastic literary connections they have to Kent http://www.penshurstplace.com/ . The following is an excerpt of what I was emailed and is by the author Margaret Wilson. Penhurset and poetry Penshurst has always inspired poets. Poems... Read more or Comment
Kent Finale!
22 September 2009 from Michelle | Hi Super Sleuths! We are holding the Kent Reading Detective's Finale on October 6th and we are hoping to have the author Margart Wilson attend let me know if you would like to come along contact me and I can... Read more or Comment
Crackers for Christmas
22 September 2009 from Michelle | Yesterday at our Kent Reading Detective's meeting at the Centre for Kentish Studies, team member Rob Illingworth highlighted a find by a relation of Jane Austen. The Right Hon. E.H Knatchbull Hugessen (Lord Brabourne) the book is called 'Crackers for... Read more or Comment
Fanny and Eva's Diaries
22 September 2009 from Michelle | While we visited the Centre for Kentish Studies yesterday we were able to look at Fanny Knight and Eva Knatchbull-Hugessen's diaries. This gave us a fantastic insight into their daily lives and the times they lived in. Some entries like the... Read more or Comment
S. M Andrews
22 September 2009 from Michelle | Here is another Find! we found at the Centre for Kentish Studies at our Reading Detective meeting yesterday! 'Jane Austen some aspects of her work together with Tonbridge connections' by S. M Andrews more great information on Jane's connections to... Read more or Comment
A Kent Girl-Graduate
22 September 2009 from Michelle | Another one of Tonbridge author Margaret Wilson's books this one is about the life of Eva Knatchbull-Hugessen the great-great niece of Jane Austen.... Read more or Comment
Almost another Sister
22 September 2009 from Michelle | 'Almost another Sister' is by Margaret Wilson who is a Tonbridge resident and the book celebrates Jane Austen and her relationship with her niece Fanny. We hope to invite her to our Kent Reading Detectives Finale to find out her inspiration... Read more or Comment
Margaret Wilson
22 September 2009 from Michelle | Margaret Wilson is local to Tonbridge and wrote 'Jane Austen's Family and Tonbridge' which is fantastically written. We hope to invite her to our Kent Reading Detectives Finale to find out her inspiration and her writers journey.... Read more or Comment
The Portrait of Jane Austen
22 September 2009 from Michelle | This is one of our finds from our visit to the Centre for Kentish Studies - Which is such an amazing place! 'The Rice Portrait of Jane Austen' by Richard James Wheeler. We had the author's son visit our first... Read more or Comment
Jane Austen letters to Fanny Knight!
22 September 2009 from Michelle | Dear Reading Detectives, We had the most fantastic Reading Detective meeting yesterday, we had the opportunity to see the letters that the Centre for Kentish Studies holds from Jane Austen to her favourite niece Fanny Knight. Allison Cresswell and Rob Illingworth... Read more or Comment
Marcus Crouch
22 September 2009 from Michelle | Hello Kent Reading Detectives, I have had an email from one of our supporters Chris Bull who has given us a fantastic Find! He also points us in the direction of where to get clues. Happy Reading! ... Read more or Comment
Printing Press
22 September 2009 from Michelle | Hello Kent Reading Detectives, I have had an email from one of our supporters Chris Bull who has given us a fantastic Find! Happy Reading! Dear Michelle, Robert Pocock (1760 - 1830) First history of... Read more or Comment
Local Historians
22 September 2009 from Michelle | Hello Kent Reading Detectives, I have had an email from one of our supporters Chris Bull who has given us a fantastic Find! Happy Reading! Dear Michelle, Many local historians with published works - in... Read more or Comment
Shipping on the Thames
22 September 2009 from Michelle | Hello Kent Reading Detectives, I have had an email from one of our supporters Chris Bull who has given us a fantastic Find! Happy Reading! Dear Michelle, Frank C Bowen - died c 1959. Lived... Read more or Comment
Billy Bunter and The Magnet Comic!
22 September 2009 from Michelle | Hello Kent Reading Detectives, I have had an email from one of our supporters Chris Bull who has given us a fantastic Find! Happy Reading! Dear Michelle, Frank Richards (1876 - 1961): a massive writer... Read more or Comment
Michael Baldwin
22 September 2009 from Michelle | Hello Kent Reading Detectives, I have had an email from one of our supporters Chris Bull who has given us a fantastic Find! Happy Reading! Dear Michelle, Local Author Michael Baldwin some of his... Read more or Comment
Kentish Crime Writer
22 September 2009 from Michelle | Hello Kent Reading Detectives, I have had an email from one of our supporters Chris Bull who has given us a fantastic Find! Happy Reading! Dear Michelle, Michael Gilbert - crime writer who lived... Read more or Comment
Ghost Story....
22 September 2009 from Michelle | Hello Kent Reading Detectives, I have had an email from one of our supporters Chris Bull who has given us a fantastic Find! I like the sound of this one! Happy Reading! Dear Michelle, Montague Rhodes... Read more or Comment
Kent Finds!
22 September 2009 from Michelle | Hello Kent Reading Detectives, I have had a email one of our supporters Chris Bull who has given us a fantastic Find! Happy Reading! Dear Michelle, Alex John Philip (1879 - 1955) - Borough Librarian at Gravesend 1903-1946, he... Read more or Comment
Kent Clues!
22 September 2009 from Michelle | Hello Kent Reading Detectives, I have had a email of Kentish 'Clues' from Chris Bull who has given us some fantastic Finds of Kentish Authors. Happy Reading! Dear Michelle, Ron Hull - Northfleet poet, 3... Read more or Comment
Mon 21 Sep 10.30 am DETECTIVE EVENT AT CENTRE FOR KENTISH STUDIES, MAIDSTONE
20 September 2009 from Lesley | Looking forward to meeting tomorrow to uncover links to Jane Austen and discover further hidden gems. Please feel free to join us if you are interested in unearthing undiscovered and forgotten writers who write about Kent and the people who... Read more or Comment (1 comments)
Sketches By Boz - We must leave town! Find!
14 September 2009 from Robert | A few years ago I visited the Dickens House in London and bought an original copy of Lloyd's Sixpenny Dickens 'Sketches By Boz' that they happened to be selling. At the time I thought what a FIND! There is several mentions... Read more or Comment
If You're Going to Snodland... Find!
11 September 2009 from Rob Illingworth | In sleuthing for literary connections to the Tonbridge & Malling district of Kent, we have made an unlikely find. The poet Thom Gunn was born in Gravesend, Kent, but he lived in California for over 40 years. Understandably, he is... Read more or Comment (4 comments)
Cat Lovers
10 September 2009 from Rob Illingworth | Keiren Phelan from the Arts Council SE attended our Reading Detectives session on 03/09 & steered us towards a poetic association between Christopher Smart & Wendy Cope. Christopher Smart was born in Shipbourne in 1722, moved to East Barming... Read more or Comment
The Kent Tramp Trail Find!
10 September 2009 from Rob Illingworth | Rupert Croft-Cooke's Tonbridge autobiography, The Altar in the Loft, led me on a trail of detection. He mentions an encounter with the writer Bart Kennedy, "a burly man with a deep voice and the unkempt look considered proper for writers... Read more or Comment
W H Davies
3 September 2009 from Vivian Branson | My goodness how the Reading Detectives has permeated into my life! After this morning's stimulating session and the comments on W H Davies and his poem 'Time to Stand and Stare' my Yoga Journal was on my doormat when I... Read more or Comment (1 comments)
Silence on the home front as my hard drive has died
2 September 2009 from Lesley | not much from me I'm afraid as my computer has given up.... Read more or Comment
The Altar in the Loft Find!
2 September 2009 from Rob Illingworth | All the local history collections in Kent Libraries & Archives include fictional works. This could be fiction written by authors with local connections, or fiction that evokes local places. Often, the fiction sections of the local history collections are overlooked. So, for me, Reading Detectives... Read more or Comment
Jeffery Farnol
29 August 2009 from Vivian Branson | In a recent publication on Tonbridge it states that the writer JF laid the scene of many of his novels within the walls of the Rose & Crown in Tonbridge. Is he on our list? he wrote circa 50 novels. ... Read more or Comment (1 comments)
Denton Welch, a look back to simpler times
28 August 2009 from Heather | I have been reading the Denton Welch Journals. I have been really enjoying the book not for the just a step back in time in the Kent countryside but also the way he expresses himself. His detailed descriptions make... Read more or Comment
Regency and Georgian Literature with a Kent Connection Find!
27 August 2009 from Michelle | Hi Super Sleuths, Here is a FIND! Regency and Georgian Literature with a Kent Connection which Rob Illingworth has dug up. They tie in nicely with our Jane Austen heritage link. Sir (Samuel) Egerton Brydges- S.E. Brydges bought & rebuilt... Read more or Comment
Jane Austen and Godmersham by The Rev. S. Graham Brade-Birks Find!
27 August 2009 from Michelle | Hi Folks, A Find! I'm currently reading a little slip of a book which is a little gem of information on Jane Austen and her connections to Godmersham in Kent. The information that is in the 13 pages of the... Read more or Comment
What Jane Austen really looked like !
26 August 2009 from Simon Wheeler | Not so much a detective, more an informer, I write, having a personal interest in this The Tonbridge Kent Reading Detectives first case. My father, Richard James Wheeler, a longtime local resident, first discovered then wrote a book about a... Read more or Comment
Kent Clues! Find!
20 August 2009 from Michelle | Hello Kent Reading Detectives, I have had a email of Kentish 'Clues' from Chris Bull who has given us some fantastic suggestions for Kentish Authors we might like to look at. Happy Reading! Dear Michelle, ... Read more or Comment
My books
20 August 2009 from Vivian Branson | The Longest Journey by EM Forster was the first one I read and after being immersed in Jane Austen for three months this was completely different. Really depressing but I couldn't put it down. I would like to have the... Read more or Comment (1 comments)
Life in the Country: With Quotations by Jane Austen and Silhouettes by Her Nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh
19 August 2009 from Robert | This book is a presentation of Victorian era silhouette art created by Jane Austen's nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh. Not wishing to diminish the artist achievement in any way, but I did feel they were using Jane Austen's name to sell... Read more or Comment
First Meeting for Kent
13 August 2009 from Michelle | Hi Folks,We had our first Reading Detective meeting at Tonbridge Library yesterday. The team has an impressive range of interests and a great age span with a wide knowledge about all sorts of literary heritage and tastes which was great!... Read more or Comment (4 comments)
Jane Austen - Monster Mash Up
6 August 2009 from Heather | Monster Mash up, I am reading the Quirk Classic, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Has anyone else read any adaptations?... Read more or Comment (2 comments)
Launch of Kent's Reading Detectives Team on 12 August
6 August 2009 from Lesley | Looking forward to first meeting 10 am on Wednesday 12 August at Tonbridge Library. Will be exciting - for further details please email libraries.readit@kent.gov.uk... Read more or Comment
Jane Austen Heritage Link
30 July 2009 from Michelle | Hi Folks, The Kent Reading Detectives will be investigating a Jane Austen Heritage Link to celebrate her family connections to Tonbridge and Kent. Feel free to come along to join our team of super sleuths!... Read more or Comment (4 comments)
Reading Detectives are starting soon in Kent
27 July 2009 from Priscilla | Tonbridge Library are to host the Reading Detectives , one of five teams of readers across the country searching for forgotten books and writing linked to their local area. What literary secrets will Kent reveal? ... Read more or Comment (2 comments)
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