by Sue Pandit | Oct 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
The BLS is very pleased to give you more information about a new literary venture that the BLS is happy to support, taking place in Barnes this Autumn. On the 1st October tickets went on sale for the inaugural Barnes Book Festival. The brainchild of a heady mixture...
by Sue Pandit | Aug 13, 2020 | blog post
We are heading into the late summer / autumn book festival season. After the very successful on-line Hay festival in May we thought it would be interesting to tell you about the published plans for upcoming literary events. I am sure most of you have been to the...
by Sue Pandit | Jun 10, 2020 | blog post
Sally Rooney’s Normal People has bounced back to the top of the bestseller lists. This is not surprising after the successful TV dramatisation which is now available on BBC iPlayer. The novel was first published in January 2018 and hit the bestseller charts mid 2019. ...
by Sue Pandit | Jun 4, 2020 | blog post
I have become quite a fan of podcasts over the last year having thought they were complicated to locate, down-load and listen to. Podcasts are currently experiencing a boom in listener numbers So if you haven’t moved into the podcast world here are some simple tips:...
by Sue Pandit | May 14, 2020 | blog post
Barnes is clearly a hot-bed of book group activity. Almost everyone I know belongs to one – some to more than one. I have done a very unscientific calculation – based on population, age, socio-economic and gender data to estimate that there are at least 45 book groups...
