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Harringay Book Giveaway for World Book Night on Tuesday 23rd April
Free books!
Get a free copy of Josephine Hart's Damage at Stroud Green and Harringay Library on Tuesday 23rd April at 6pm. Helen from the Friends of Stroud Green and Harringay Library will be distributing free copies of this book as part of the World Book Night celebrations.
South Harringay Schools parents have the chance to snap up a free copy of Jackie Kay's brilliant memoir Red Dust Road at the South Harringay Junior School gate at 3.30, also on April 23rd. Look for me holding a pile of books. First come, first served.
Stop me and take one!
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Permalink Reply by Helen Riley on
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The book giveaway at the library is at 6pm. I recommend the book!
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Permalink Reply by NIck and Lizzy on
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Hello! I'd love a copy of red dust road, but I am a chestnuts mum. Can I have a copy if I swing by shortly after 3.30? If not, is it too late to do the book handing out thing? World Book day is a good thing!
Lizzy
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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First come, first served so no guarantees but you're welcome to take one if I have any left! I only have 20 copies though as it is so popular this year that they limited our supplies.
It's too late to be a book giver for this year as you have to apply about 2 months in advance but bookmark the World Book Night website and apply next year. It would be great if all the local schools became WBN hubs for giving out books to the community. You can do it as an individual or apply as community group e.g. on behalf of a PSA
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Permalink Reply by Alison P on
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Ooh I'd love a copy of Red Dust Road, will ask J to look out for you on Tuesday!
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Were I a(n) SHS parent on Shakespeare's Feast Day and the day after that of Cervantes, I would expect nothing less at the school gate than two Folio Society Editions of these two lads' Obras Completas/Complete Works with matched and facing translations printed on well pumiced Schleipen paper at Memminger, Quarter-bound in leather by Lachenmaier, with silk ribbons a la Missale Romanum and bookmarks of the period. I would even come equipped with my shopping trolley to bear my treasures homeward in some style.
But since these do not seem to be on offer, I'd settle for a Bloodaxe paperback from Jackie Kay. I remember twenty years ago introducing a mixed bunch of Colombians, Filipinos, Vietnamese and South Sudanese Dinka in my EAL class on Hornsey Lane to her Other Lovers, especially her Bessie Smith series of poems with Bessie as backing.
"I am coming down the stairs in my father's house.
I am five or six or seven. There is fat thick wallpaper
I always caress, bumping flower into flower.
She is singing. (Did they play anyone else ever?)
My father's feet tap a shiny beat on the floor.
Christ, my father says, that's some voice she's got.
I pick up the record cover. And now. This is slow motion.
My hand swoops, glides, swoops again.
I pick up the cover and my fingers are all over her face.
Her black face. Her magnificent black face.
That's some voice. His shoes dancing on the floor.
There are some stones that open in the night like flowers
Down in the red graveyard where Bessie haunts her lovers.
There are stones that shake and weep in the heart of night
Down in the red graveyard where Bessie haunts her lovers."
Now, Liz, if you could just stick a few of her poems inside the cover of that Red Dust Road . . . . .
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Permalink Reply by Chrisandsally on
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I've just read the Red Dust Road. I urge you to buy a copy if you don't get a free one. It's an uplifting, joyous read!
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