Tag: library
Gloucestershire Libraries’ Day of Celebration
Today was the Gloucestershire Libraries’ Day of Celebration and loads of authors were out and about celebrating the wonderful work our libraries and librarians do. This is a terrible picture of my friend John Dougherty, who had his audience in Cinderford Library in thrall when I got there, reading poems, telling stories and singing songs…
Libraries in my life
I’ve been thinking about the libraries in my life and have just realised that they have played a more important role than I thought. The first library I remember was mine! I went to boarding school and the library mostly had very old books. I realised that if I collected all the boy’s own books…
Thame Library
This has been a very busy week for me. On Monday I visited the brand new Thame Library, near Oxford, on their opening day. I had a lot of fun telling stories an getting people to draw pictures. I had family close by, so I was a bit inundated with grand nieces and nephews, which…