Wednesday 4 May, 6.30pm ACMI, Melbourne Australian premiere of Karen Day’s documentary Girl from God’s Country on forgotten filmmaker Nell Shipman, plus launch of our book Silent Women: Pioneers of Cinema which celebrates Shipman and...
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8 April, 6pm Part of Weaver Words, Frodsham Literary Festival Calling all North West book groups, libraries and book lovers – please come and support your local authors. More than 20 North West-based writers including Aurora Metro’s David...
Read moreOn this day in 1968…
On this day in 1968 the extraordinary Alice Guy-Blaché passed away aged 95. Guy-Blaché was the first female pioneer in early French cinema and is remembered along with a host of forgotten women from the early days of cinema in our book Silent...
Read moreMary Hamer’s Kipling talks
Mary Hamer, author of the historical novel Kipling and Trix has a number of talks planned this year where she’ll be discussing various aspects of both Rudyard Kipling’s life and career and that of his sister, Trix. The...
Read moreSight & Sound Review Silent Women: Pioneers of Cinema
Pamela Hutchinson has reviewed our new book Silent Women: Pioneers of Cinema in the April issue of the internationally acclaimed film magazine Sight & Sound published by the British Film Institute. In her (almost) full page review Pamela said...
Read moreThe Iranian Feast reviewed in The Guardian
Kevin Dyer’s latest play The Iranian Feast opened at Farnham Maltings on 5 March 2016 before touring the UK. In modern-day Tehran, you can never predict how life will turn out. Abbas calls together his wife and daughter and their friends...
Read moreCelebrate International Women’s Day with books celebrating women
Today (8 March 2016) is International Women’s Day  and what better way to celebrate than to snap up some new books that celebrate great achievements by women from our past and present. The stories of these women serve to remind us all how...
Read more4th Virginia Prize for Fiction Announced
We are thrilled to announce that Shambala Junction by Dipika Mukherjee has won this year’s Virginia Prize. The Virginia Prize is dedicated to women writing fiction in English from around the world. The judges were unanimous in selecting...
Read moreListen to Melody Bridges on Woman’s Hour
Don’t worry if you missed Melody Bridges, Artistic Director of the Worthing WOW Festival and co-editor of our new book Silent Women: Pioneers of Cinema on BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour today. You can listen again here. With Melody...
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