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We’ve had some exciting news – one of our events has been accepted for inclusion in the Big Book Weekend on 8 – 10 May, which we mentioned last week as part of the BBC’s Culture in Quarantine!  We submitted three events and our Debut Author event with Louise Hare and Beth Morrey has been selected.  Both authors were included in The Observer’s selection of 10 best debut novelists whom they believe will make their mark. In Louise’s This Lovely City, her central character arrives on the Empire Windrush to post-war London, but soon learns that new arrivals are treated with suspicion. In ..read more