Tucked away in Bognor, West Sussex, there’s an open, bright and cheerful picture framing warehouse with a stunning flower garden. It is here, where local adults with mental health issues, learning disabilities or dementia can come once or twice a week to take part in the skillful work of picture framing. Frame of Mind is […]
Category: Bookishness
Step back in time | First Published Books | Volume 2
Another month and another fanstastic line up of great authors and their first published works. It’s the novel that launched them into literary fame. As there are many classic authors we would love to cover, we are going to split this into a series of blog posts. Here are another group of our favourites here […]
Author Focus | Arthur Ransome
Here at World of Rare Books, we love to focus on the interesting lives of the greatest authors that this world has offered us. This year marks 50 years without this great children’s author who is best known for writing the Swallows and Amazons series. Arthur Ransome was the son of Cyril and Edith Ransome, […]