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John Plimmer and Bob Long knew each other as kids, then went their separate ways till
their paths crossed when DS Plimmer arrested Long at an armed robbery. Years later, both
retired from their respective professions, they got together to write Inside Track,
a crime thriller based on their experiences.
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Where is the life we have lost in living?
Where is wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?T S Eliot
launched last month by THE WEST MIDLANDS READERS’ NETWORK withNot with
POETRY BOOK OF THE MONTH
& BLOODAXE BOOKS, FABER AND FABER, and PICADOR
click here for February's Poetry Book Of The Month:-
Billy Collins Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes including "On Turning
Ten"
and now Billy's personal message
click here for The Arrival of Brighteye by Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze
March Poetry Book Of The Month
click here for Billy's Rain by Hugo Williams
April Poetry Book Of The Month
click here for Hand
in Hand edited by Carol Ann Duffy
click here for Poems 1960-2000 by Fleur Adcock
June Poetry Book Of The Month
click here for Killing Time by Simon Armitage
July Poetry Book Of The Month
NEW click here for Last Words
edited by Don Paterson & Jo Shapcott
August Poetry Book Of The Month
and click
here for Why Poetry On Loan? Philip Benjamin-Coker's
answer to Eliot's quest
Click here for Poetry On Loan itself
Click here for Worcestershire's intriguing House of Air
Click here for A Poet's Pilgrimage by Phillip Higson- NOW £2 a copy
Click Literary Heritage - West Midlands for a century or more of West Midland's writing from Jerome K Jerome to Jim Crace - an excellent resource if you want to discover more about your and our literary past and present, heritage and future |
Birmingham Millennium Book Choice
from Charles Bukowski to The Talented Mr Ripley, click here
Click here for review of A Crocus Selection - poetry in text and braille
Click here
for review of "Like I'm running in a hurdle race"
- reflections on caring in Sandwell, in the words of
carers themselves
Click here how to foster reader development in
care homes
Click Discussion to hear about Literature and Disabilities
Click here for A Lone Walk by Gul Y Davis - Tindal Street's latest: life inside the asylum
Click here for "Books into Films" - flick the page, watch the video
The First West Midlands E-book by Lexikon Publishing Now out in Paperback A Poet's Pilgrimage: the Shaping of a Creative Life "This is an unusual book about an unusual man. Philip Higson's poetry, ranging from the strictly formal to the absolutely free, records an astounding variety of experiences from idyllic country childhood to inner city Baudelairean spleen; from uplifting love to prostrating bereavement countered finally by the elating hope of spiritual reunion." For more details click here. To purchase at £6.95 click here |
Enlarged
and improved! "WIDDICOMBE CORNER" a quick guide to pharmalogically
influenced work from Taylor Coleridge to Irving Welsh. |
Laurel's
Library Books |
Click here for Old Reading Matter - archive material from the last century (1998 & 1999)
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