East Mids Authors

Read a good book in a local beauty spot over lunch or a capaccino, join your local library, download kindle and kobo e-reader apps

Check out local Authors and visit the places they lived or had connections with…

D.H.Lawrence
Eastwoid, Wirksworth Derbys, the Cossall and Erewash Canal, he walked Ilkeston Road too…and some of his characters did
Read his books and biography.

Byron the poet
Newstead Abbey

John Sillitoe
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Have a look at the local council’s next reading event

http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=16285

Check out Nottingham people who have contributed in all kinds of ways…Lawrence is under L
There are architects, musicians (although Ten Years After and more modern groups probably havn’t been added to the list) John Player, Jesse Boot.
There are biographies on lots of these people available to read…

http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=4116#L