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- Sep 28, 2026
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- Jul 21, 2026
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A room of one’s own (opens the original)
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This is the very beautiful Newnham College, Cambridge where Virginia Woolf delivered her now celebrated lecture ‘A Room on One’s Own’ in 1928.From https://thecambridgeplacebook.com/newnham-college-garden/This would be a very beautiful place to have a room of one’s own. And Virginia Woolf in her lecture to the all female college in 1928 was very clear about the importance of space, physical, mental and financial, needed in order to achieve great work. Or any work at all in fact. Famously in the e
Developing characters - who is about to be born of ink? (opens the original)
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Living the dream on a summer’s evening (opens the original)
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I’m trying to get better at taking pictures of events. I mostly get carried away with chatting.If you’d asked me six months ago to imagine an ideal evening, this would not have been far off. My new local bookshop, The Book and Bottle in Hertford, combines all my favourite things (books, wine, chocolate) and last night I got to throw Wendy Cope into the mix! It was the first in a series of Creative Writing sessions I am running at The Book and Bottle using the poems from ‘The Orange’ as inspirati
The special time zone that is summer reading (opens the original)
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The loneliness of the at-home-writer (opens the original)
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