A note from Babette Cole The big tent at Hay is the ultimate pop-up bookshop – and its figures are enough to make grown booksellers weep. Gareth Howell-Jones reflects on the unique challenges of managing it. “HENRY WINKLER gave me a fiver!!” The...
FREE to good home. Beautiful part Belgium Warmblood brood mare. Approx 16.1hh, bay 17 years old. Contact Babette here She has bred some cracking foals which are now eventing. She will be PUT DOWN shortly if a home is not found so to help save her I am offering a FREE...
Whoopee new book out on InkySprat today! (17th June) My first book I ever wrote and illustrated, Promise Solves The Problem, was published all those years ago in 1976! A graphic novel for children it was ahead of it’s time thanks to my clever publisher, Rosemary...
The Muswell Hill Children’s Bookshop, which has traded successfully for 40 years in the “vibrant, book-loving community” in North London, is seeking a new owner “to take it forward for the next generation”. The store – on a road...
See if your poem has been long or short-listed. LONG & SHORT LISTS The ten poems chosen by competition judge Ruth Padel will be published in the 2014 Fish Anthology. First: Pacific Rim by Chris Stuart Andrews Second: Alice Like the Wind by Jacqueline Haskill...
