Writing in Sand – Simon Brett
At our Oct ’26 meeting Simon apologised for deviating from his advertised talk to give us an entertaining dramatic performance in which he played all the parts. The play concerned…
Yeats: the Women and the Poet
W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) – The Women and the Poet Robert Smith, the manager of the Chichester Oxfam bookshop, and expert in antiquarian books and the history of book illustration, gave…
The Mysteries of Miss Marple – Dr Mark Aldridge
Agatha Christie and William Shakespeare are said to be the most popular authors world-wide. To be neck-and-neck with the Bard of Avon in terms of global sales is no small…
Recommended: The Book Society 1929-’69
Dr Nicola Wilson joined us for our June ’26 meeting and talked about The Book Society which was active between 1929-’69. No archives exist for the Book Society so Nicola…
Affaires Criminelles – Bill Alder
At our June ’26 meeting Bill Alder gave us an engaging overview of French crime fiction and made comparisons with British/American crime fiction. This was a very detailed account of…