“reading was a huge escape”

Novels, for me, have come from somewhere I wasn’t looking. In my twenties I was carrying an idea about a woman wandering around Ireland on a quest she didn’t understand and I sat in the Reading Room o

On a summer’s day earlier this year, Evan McPherson, senior valuer at Auctioneum, was carrying out a standard valuation at a house clearance in Bristol. Inside, he found the usual collection of furnit

HE has more than three dozen books to his name, with sales in more than 80 countries approaching 200 million. They’ve been read in over 80 languages, making Ken Follett one of the world’s best-loved a

The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the ...

Fantasy author JRR Tolkien’s mythological Middle Earth takes inspiration from a number of places in Gloucestershire and the West Midlands. Tolkien frequently visited the Forest of Dean and its tempera

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