Jul 8, 2022
Costa Book of the Year prize winner Hannah Lowe will be the guest for the 2022 Elthamread festival organised by Eltham Library and sponsored by SEnine magazine. Hannah’s book of poems, The Kids, was inspired by her time working in a London suburban sixth form college...
Jun 28, 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...
Jun 28, 2021
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...
Aug 7, 2019
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...
Aug 5, 2019
Elthamread for 2019 was Bookworm by Lucy Mangan. Described as, “Beautiful and moving… It will kick-start a cascade of nostalgia.” When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up different worlds and cast new light on this one.She...
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