by Jo Weinberger | May 7, 2020 | blog post
To celebrate VE Day I thought I’d take this opportunity to post about an extraordinary poem by Lynette Roberts, the Welsh modernist poet. Roberts published two books of poetry with Faber and Faber in 1944 and 1951. She became friends with her editor, T.S. Eliot, and...
by Jo Weinberger | May 7, 2020 | blog post
Alun Lewis was a Welsh poet who came from the mining community of Cwmaman in the Cynon Valley. Following scholarships to Aberystwyth and Manchester Universities he became a journalist, poet and short story writer. Despite being a pacifist, Lewis enlisted in the army...
by Sue Pandit | May 7, 2020 | blog post
A number of book festivals are looking at how they can take their festivals on-line. The Big Book Weekend is a 3-day virtual festival running from 8th– 10th May that brings together the best of cancelled British Book festivals. It features the biggest names in books...
by Sue Pandit | Apr 9, 2020 | blog post
All books featured in our blog are available to buy from Barnes Books. You can do this by email to [email protected] or by phone, 020 8741 0786. Venetia at the Barnes Bookshop is operating a free local delivery service; payment can be taken over the phone and...
by Sue Pandit | Apr 9, 2020 | blog post
The best-selling book across all genres and formats is Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror and the Light. This is the third and final book in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy. The first, Wolf Hall, named after the Seymour family’s seat in Wiltshire, is set in the period 1500 to...
by Sue Pandit | Apr 9, 2020 | blog post
Several have been launched over recent years A couple we particularly recommend: Cheerful Book Club: the book club for optimists. Ed Milliband and friends in conversation with authors, mostly focusing on contemporary non-fiction. But a recent episode, 27/2/20,featured...
