Catholic church bans visit by gay author to London school | Books

Catholic church bans visit by gay author to London school | Books

The Catholic church has banned a visit to a London school by a gay author and removed a number of governors who supported the event, in a move that has drawn comparisons... Read more »
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Rashford hits the back of the net with books for kids – South London News

A primary school has been gifted a new library with help from footballer Marcus Rashford. Students at Melcombe Primary School in Fulham Palace Road, Fulham were previously reading worn, outdated books until... Read more »
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Mum and son, 6, so tired of no Black characters in children’s books they wrote their own

A West London mum who grew up owning only one book featuring “someone who wasn’t white” has taken matters into her own hands and written a children’s book with her six-year-old son... Read more »
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Junglist by Two Fingas and James T Kirk review – when jungle was massive | Music books

Ralph Ellison, in his 1952 classic Invisible Man, may have best captured a sense of blackness not as a racial absolute but as a process in culture – the darkness of lives... Read more »
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Derek Keene obituary | History books

London across the 12 months 1300 was a serious European metropolis, with a inhabitants of 80,000-100,000, comparable with the good city centres of that point, Venice and Florence. In town centre have... Read more »
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8 of the best books about living in London

London, the metropolis with streets paved with gold, is a perpetual motif in a lot literature. Although different cities have as a lot to supply in phrases of historical past, magnificence and... Read more »

Diane Abbott signs deal for ‘honest and moving’ memoirs | Books

Diane Abbott has signed a deal to put in writing her memoirs, telling of how a “bespectacled little lady” would go on to make historical past as the primary elected Black feminine... Read more »