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#Merky Books Champions Under-Represented Voices
When Lemara Lindsay-Prince went to the launch event in London of #Merky Books, a Penguin Random House imprint set up in association with the rapper Stormzy, she noticed something different…
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Bimini
When Bimini Bon Boulash was approached by Penguin Books with the idea of writing a book, the question didn’t have to be asked twice. Bimini, a drag queen who rose…
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Groff grapples with modern-day malaise in novel set in 12th century
Lauren Groff, the American novelist and short story writer, set her latest book, Matrix, in an abbey during the 12th century. But, speaking at the first event in the Autumn…
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Cringleford Bridge to UEA Broad
Living in Norwich its great some good walks on our doorstep, such as the popular walk around UEA Broad. We’ve covered walking around the University Broad (aka UEA Lake) in…
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A National Institution Comes To Norwich
With a history that stretches back more than seven decades, the Radio 4 programme “Any Questions?” is nothing less than a national institution. It is similar in format to BBC1’s…
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Lord Owen @ UEA Literary Festival: Trump, Bush, Blair and Hubris Syndrome
Lord Owen is best known for his time as a frontline politician, when he was foreign secretary and a co-founder of the Social Democratic Party. But before politics, David Owen…
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Steve Jones @ the UEA Literary Festival
The geneticist Professor Steve Jones began his recent talk held as part of the University of East Anglia’s Autumn Literary Festival 2019 by describing himself as “a serial plagiarist”. He…
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Tracey Thorn at the UEA Literary Festival
Tracey Thorn is best known as one half of the pop duo Everything But the Girl – their biggest hit was the haunting Missing – and she continues to write…
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Max Porter @ UEA Literature Festival
For some booksellers, their daily immersion in the literary world helps them in their own efforts at writing. Max Porter, however, found the opposite, saying that it generated an anxiety…
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James Morrison concert @ UEA LCR
Although a later generation of guitar-playing singer-songwriters, notably Ed Sheeran and George Ezra, are now taking much of the limelight, James Morrison showed with the opening show of his 2019…
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Gina Miller at the UEA Literary Festival
Some see Gina Miller as a heroine who has battled tirelessly – despite much abuse – to uphold due process in what they regard as the disaster of Britain’s exit…
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Marlon James at the UEA Literary Festival
Marlon James may be a winner of the Man Booker Prize, thanks to his 2014 novel A Brief History of Seven Killings, but he insists that he does not look…
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