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Maggie & Me – Damian Barr
Back at the start of last year one of the lovely publicists at Bloomsbury told me, with great certainty and authority, that they were publishing Damian Barr’s memoir and that I was going to ‘adore it’… more →
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LGBT Sandwell CELEBRATION dAY!
wrote 1 week ago: Join Sandwell LGBT communities and their friends on 20th June at Smethwick Library with special gues … more →
News: Hay Festival of Literature Events – Damian Barr talks to India Knight
wrote 3 weeks ago: Following on from my previous blog post, our second event at the Hay Festival was Damian Barr talks … more →
Maggie & Me: Damian Barr
wrote 4 weeks ago: Signed copies available – £14.99 It wasn’t much fun being a gay kid in Thatcher’s Britain duri … more →
Maggie & Me – Damian Barr
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wrote 1 month ago: Back at the start of last year one of the lovely publicists at Bloomsbury told me, with great certai … more →
Fiction Uncovered 2013
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wrote 1 month ago: One of the bookish initiatives that I love the most has to be Fiction Uncovered. In case you haven’t … more →
Twitter fiction
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wrote 1 month ago: From The Guardian, 4th May 2013 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/may/04/twitter-fiction-damian-b … more →
Maggie & Me - Damian Barr
wrote 1 month ago: In terms of timing, the publication date of Damian Barr’s memoir – Maggie and Me – … more →
Listen again: 30th April 2013
wrote 1 month ago: Rosie talks to the director of ‘Joshua Tree, 1951’, Matthew Mishory, who is on the phone from Califo … more →
Damian Barr's Literary Salon
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wrote 1 month ago: Following on from Tuesday’s World Book Night event on London’s Southbank, I was l … more →
Not My Review: Maggie & Me by Damian Barr
wrote 1 month ago: The link below is to a book review (of sorts) of Damian Barr’s ‘Maggie & Me,’ … more →
Book Attraction-Maggie & Me by: Damian Barr
wrote 2 months ago: Maggie & Me is Damian’s memoir of growing up poor, gay, extra-tall, and too smart in a tough Sco … more →
Head Down; More Reading, Less Everything Else...
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wrote 2 months ago: I shouldn’t really be typing this. I should actually be busy reading and nothing else. But having lo … more →
Savidge Reads Library Loot #3
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wrote 5 months ago: So here is the third in my new series, yet first of the year, of vlog posts where I get to embarrass … more →
Why are more books published than there are readers?
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wrote 7 months ago: ** 2/5 Bored of the Booker: Prizes, prizes everywhere Battle for the Arts at Battle of Ideas Barbica … more →
Shoreditch House Literary Salon
wrote 10 months ago: At 6:30 the queue is already round the block outside Shoreditch House. The crowd buzz with excitemen … more →
the new black: you and your quarter life crisis
wrote 1 year ago: When I decided to run away at the end of last year, throwing in my job to commence a desperate searc … more →
Me Before You - Jojo Moyes
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wrote 1 year ago: Assumptions can be dangerous things; you are probably making one about me reviewing this book right … more →
AUBIN AND WILLS LITERARY SALON
wrote 2 years ago: A few pics from the Aubin and Wills salon by Damian Barr. Wednesday night featured nostalgic seaside … more →
Shoreditch House Literary Salon - Time to Read
wrote 2 years ago: As medics with a variety of interests and a background of A*s at GCSE in subjects we are obsessed wi … more →
