Deben Holt: some literary archaeology
‘Deben Holt’ was used as the pseudonym for two adult novels published in the late fifties: Circle of Shadows (John Gifford: 1957) and...
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Sense of Place
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Suffolk Haunts: Original Stories Inspired by the Legends and Landscapes of East Anglia
In September, the fourth of our very successful and well received series of anthologies will be published. Suffolk Haunts: Original...
Tales from the Bookseller #7: The Power of Evie
There have been many, many things that I’ve been proud of since starting my bookseller journey: things that I’ve done; people that I’ve...
Mining Memory in Latch: Rebecca Goss
My latest poetry collection, Latch, explores memory and the act of returning to the landscape of my childhood, to understand it anew. I...
The Captain's Apprentice: Ralph Vaughan Williams and the Story of a Folk Song
Reviewed by Keith Jones (Random House: 2022) by Caroline Davison This book, chosen as the winner of the New Angle Prize awarded in 2023,...
Five Books chosen by Charlie Haylock
Fast Fury by Freddie Truman, Stanley Paul & Co. Ltd. 1961 My schoolboy dream was to open the bowling for England .and I ‘went’ for my...
George Ewart Evans (1909 - 1988)
George Ewart Evans is regarded by many as one of the founding fathers of oral history. Originally from a mining village in Wales, he came...
Linguistic East Anglia
Together with the county of Norfolk and parts of north-east Essex, Suffolk represents the core of ‘linguistic East Anglia’. Within this...
The Invention of Roger Deakin
Reviewed by Andrew Burton The Swimmer by Patrick Barkham (Hamish Hamilton: 2023) Photo: Gary Rowland If Roger Deakin had not existed,...
Kate Worsley
Thursday 7th March 2024 The East Anglian landscape strikes resonance in us all; we know and love it. So, when a novel draws upon that...
Interview with Kate Harris from Harris & Harris Books
Tell us a little about Harris & Harris Books and your wonderful new bookshop. I opened Harris & Harris Books in Clare in August 2011, a...
Community Living in Suffolk
At the end of Kate Worsley’s recent novel Foxash, which has been reviewed in this issue of BookTalk, the author briefly summarises the...
Tales from the Bookseller #5
2024, the year I will not be popping up here, there and everywhere. At least not in the sense of a 3 month pop-up. Lesson learned and all...
Rose's PhD Diaries No. 2
When I wrote my first PhD diary for BookTalk I was only a couple of months in, but as I sit to write my second entry, I am fast...
Primadonna Festival 2023
Primadonna is an inclusive, non-profit organisation which was created to support female writers. It’s a vibrant three-day festival held...
The Low House Literary Festival at Laxfield
Rural Suffolk village Laxfield isn’t the first place you’d think of to host a literary festival but I’m guessing once upon a time,...
Reflecting on Suffolk Reflections
To see my words and my name in print is such a surreal experience and it feels quite fulfilling to have a team at University of Suffolk...
Suffolk Reflections: A New Student Publication
Last month we welcomed the new anthology, Suffolk Reflections, from the MA Creative and Critical Writing students at the University of...
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