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New DVD Features More Than 800 Railway Photos By Guildford’s Dave Salmon
A new DVD is now on sale featuring more than 800 railway images taken by the late Dave Salmon, the renowned photographer who lived in Guildford. Dave passed away in…
Secret Chalk Codes By Vagrants Inspires Local Poets At The Spike
The Spike Heritage Centre in Warren Road, Guildford, hosted a charity poetry evening with readings by four local poets on Friday, December 6. Susie Campbell, poet; Lucy Furlong, a local…
Two Books, One Local Author – Ideal Christmas Presents
Sponsored article Local author, David Stokes, has recently published two books in very different genre: a children’s picture book, Prince Woswy and the Bad Dream, and an historical novel, Angles…
Petworth Literary Festival ‘Bigger And Better’
Sponsored article Festival press releases all too often boast ‘bigger and better’ almost by default. But Petworth Festival’s Literary Week is by any standards bigger and better this coming autumn.…
Book Review: The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse
By Laura Neuhaus Kate Mosse, who was at Guildford’s Book Festival in October, takes her reader on a vividly historical journey that unearths the 16th Century religious struggle in France…
Feature: From Source to Sea, a Meander Down the Dordogne Valley
By Valerie Thompson About 30 years ago I bought a small, old, stone house in a rural village in the Correze, a backwater of France, about halfway down the Dordogne…
More Authors Confirmed for Guildford Book Festival
By William Parsons More authors were confirmed today, July 27 (2018), to be featuring in the line-up for Guildford Book Festival. Organisers of the festival made the announcement alongside the…
Book Review: Their Day Has Passed – Gypsies In Victorian And Edwardian Surrey
By David Rose Back in the 1910s certain Surrey landowners were putting pressure on the Chief Constable to instruct his officers to remove Gypsy-travellers from their land. But he was…
Book Review: The Optician of Lampedusa
By Alice Fowler Four years ago, an optician living on the Italian island of Lampedusa went on a boat trip. From the sea he heard cries which at first he…
Guildford Book Festival 2017 Line-Up Announced
By Jan Todd The Guildford Book Festival, now said to be recognised as the premier literary event in the South-East, has announced its 2017 programme and a new venue. This…
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