I have been saving rather than bagging my leaves each year and placing them along with the leaves I rake up later in the summer from hot weather, to make a bed of compost for planting things like bell peppers and […]

Alan Sillitoe was born in Nottingham in 1928 and was an enterprising young man, leaving school at 14 to work in a bicycle factory, and later working also at a plywood mill. Sillitoe began to write in Malaya, and […]

Leslies Poles Hartley became known to the large public after the publication of The Go-Between, 1953, in which he tells the disturbing story of the difficult relationship and the psychological development of an […]