October 2021
Elthamread
available at eltham library
The 2021 Elthamread Choice
Small Pleasures
published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Clare Chambers
Photo by Anna MCarthy
The Inspiration
The book is set in 1950s Sidcup.
NEW for 2021
Junior Elthamread 2021
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Elthamread Events 2021
Elthamread Writers Group Event
Tuesday 19 October at 7pm
at Eltham Library
Elthamread Author Event
Tuesday 26 October at 7pm
at Eltham Library
Elthamread Carers Event
Tuesday 2 November at 10:30am
at Eltham Library
Clare Chambers
Find out a little bit more about this year’s Elthamread author. Wendy Moore interviews Louisa especially for SEnine Magazine.
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New Junior Elthamread launched for 2021
This year, for the first time, Elthamread is accompanied by a ‘Junior Elthamread’. For Junior Elthamread, the chosen book is This Wonderful Thing, a humorous and sensitive story for nine to 12-year-olds, by Adam Baron, who lives in Greenwich. Adam will be running...
Elthamread 2021 announced
A best-selling page-turner by local author Clare Chambers has been chosen as the book for this year’s Elthamread. Clare’s book, Small Pleasures, which mixes a wide range of themes, is set in 1950s South East London and Sidcup, and has captured the book-reading...
What is Elthamread?
The aim of the Elthamread is to encourage everyone in SE9 to read the same book in October and come together at various events to talk about it. The Elthamread was launched in 2016 by local author Wendy Moore and is co-ordinated by Eltham Library manager Miriam...
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Last Year’s Elthamread Choice
The Dragon Lady
published by Bloomsbury Caravel
Louisa Treger
Author of The Dragon Lady
The Inspiration
Virginia Courtauld with Mah-Jongg the Eltham Palace lemur.
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