Try the Stokie gastronomy experience complete with gourmet Arnold Bennett oatcake
Article Written:Full article in the Sentinel https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/try-stokie-gastronomy-experience-gourmet-5965128
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Jacques Eldin
Article Written:It is with regret and sadness that we report the recent death of our Vice President Jacques Eldin. Jacques was Arnold Bennett’s son-in-law. Jacques leaves his son – our President Denis Eldin – and his daughter Monique and her family. The funeral will take place on Thursday 17 June.You will find the details on this […]
Read Article >>Birthday Celebrations 2021
Article Written:Thanks to everyone who attended AB’s Birthday Commemoration on 27th May 2021 It was especially nice chat to some of you over a coffee at The Quarter in Piccadilly. The unveiling of the statue in 2017. https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=10155326546929814&ref=watch_permalink
Read Article >>Letter from new Chair: Professor Ray Johnson MBE
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Read Article >>Slightly Foxed Podcast – Margaret Drabble
Article Written:Dame Margaret Drabble joins us at the Slightly Foxed table as we celebrate her life in writing. From taking up her pen in the 1960s as a young mother alone in her kitchen to feeling part of a movement with Nell Dunn, Margaret Forster and Edna O’Brien, to editing The Oxford Companion to English Literature […]
Read Article >>Backlisted Podcast – Riceyman Steps
Article Written:Backlisted Podcast featuring Riceyman Steps – https://www.backlisted.fm/ Congratulations on winning the Podcast of the Year Award 2019
Read Article >>“Growing Up With Clayhanger”
Article Written:I have a short personal essay called “Growing Up with Clayhanger” in this beautiful new book published by the Letter Press Project Jonathan Taylor http://letterpressproject.co.uk/the-resource-archive/2019-10-31/the-dream-i-held-in-my-hands?
Read Article >>Colin Fisher’s Blog 16 April 2019
Article Written:Colin Fisher’s Blog April 16, 2019 Enthralling – not interminable For over two years I used Arnold Bennett’s self-help book Literary Taste to find out if, a century after the book’s publication, it was possible to create my own literary taste. To carry on the experiment, I will now read the books reviewed by Arnold […]
Read Article >>Digital Addiction Getting You Down? Try an Analog Cure.
Article Written:Digital Addiction Getting You Down? Try an Analog Cure By Cal Newport. New York Times April 8, 2019 . . . Mr. Bennett is not a name that typically comes to mind when seeking advice about our current high-tech moment. But he should be. In 1905, Mr. Bennett stepped away from his traditional genres to produce […]
Read Article >>From the Vaults, but worth reading again
Article Written:The Age of Uncertainty – On Google searches, the name ‘Arnold Bennett’ frequently appeared, but each time I dismissed him without a moment’s consideration. The very idea! But why was I so prejudiced against a novelist who had once been called “the English Zola”? I couldn’t quite remember. Mrs Woolf and Mr Bennett
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