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St Hilda’s Crime & Mystery Weekend

  • Post date April 7, 2009
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21-23 August  St Hilda’s College, OXFORD
Various authors, including Martin Edwards will be speaking at this crime conference. This year’s theme is The Wages of Sin
For information email: eileen.roberts@st-hildas.ox.ac.uk

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Introducing Barbara Nadel on @newhambookshop Pl Introducing Barbara Nadel on @newhambookshop Plaistow, London E13 is not exactly glamorous but we have a certain magic which, for me, is centered on a bookshop at the heart of the community. The Newham Bookshop sits on the corner of the Barking Road and Green Street which used to be thronged with thousands of West Ham United fans, but now the club have moved to the Olympic Stadium at Stratford, that no longer happens. As a child going to the match with my family on a Saturday, I would buy my sweets and programme from a Green Street shop that was actually the owner's front room. This often happened after we'd spent the morning dipping in and out of junk shops looking for things we might be able to sell to make 'a few bob' while snacking on chapatis from Asian cafes and take away shops. My favourite bookshop was founded in 1978 and very quickly established itself as part of the local community. It's always been and remains a book lovers paradise. Its books cover every topic you can imagine - and some you can't - and they sell books for both adults and children. Manager Vivian Archer and her staff are real book people, knowledgeable and passionate, and if they can't get a book in stock for you it probably doesn't exist. However, this is no old-fashioned, sleepy bookshop. You can browse for hours undisturbed if you want to, but the Newham Bookshop is also a place people go to meet other like-minded folk, neighbours and friends. Over the years Vivian has made a huge number of contacts with local schools and community organisations, authors and venues like the Wanstead Tap who put on music, literary and other cultural events. This bookshop is a place where things get done as well as somewhere that provides space to think and dream. Some of my Hakim and Arnold novel plots have crystallised here and so for lovers of the series I feel a visit is a must. All those years ago when I was a child searching for treasure in the junk shops of Green Street, I had no idea I'd actually find literary gold in a local bookshop two minutes from where I used to live. Tune in tomorrow for @christina.koning
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