Revisiting the Ex Libris podcast on our seventh blog linked to Lewisham Voices Facebook video posts.
In this weekly series, the stories, memories, poems and writing from people who lived, worked or wrote about the area of Lewisham are read by others with Lewisham connections.
Enjoy Lewisham Voices.
https://www.facebook.com/LewishamLibraries/
In this weekly series, the stories, memories, poems and writing from people who lived, worked or wrote about the area of Lewisham are read by others with Lewisham connections.
Enjoy Lewisham Voices.
https://www.facebook.com/LewishamLibraries/
That trail, in many respects, started at Lewisham Library in South London. This big, cornerstone library provided Candice a ‘safe place’ during her childhood. Passing by the library at night, she’d gaze with wonder at the lights illuminating the library's sign. Later, during her teenage years, the place provided her a sanctuary. It became a home-from-home, a seminal venue. Candice describes in moving and compelling terms for Ex Libris how it feels to return to the library now, after some busy intervening years.
Candice makes that return as a bestselling author. Her hit novel Queenie compellingly charts a year in the life of a 25-year-old woman, Queenie Jenkins, as she navigates life, love, race and family. Booker Prize winner Bernadine Evaristo calls the book ‘a deliciously funny, characterful, topical and thrilling novel for our times.’
Like her eponymous heroine, Candice Carty-Williams is someone full of honesty, humour and heart. Her breakout creation has captured the imaginations of countless readers: Queenie was the highest-earning debut hardback novel in the UK last year and was shortlisted, among other prizes, for the Costa First Novel Award. It is now out in paperback (in a range of colours).
Joining Ben Holden and Candice for this episode are Lewisham’s Library Manager, Chris Moore, and Rachel New, Outreach Officer for Lewisham Libraries.
http://www.candicecartywilliams.com/
Candice makes that return as a bestselling author. Her hit novel Queenie compellingly charts a year in the life of a 25-year-old woman, Queenie Jenkins, as she navigates life, love, race and family. Booker Prize winner Bernadine Evaristo calls the book ‘a deliciously funny, characterful, topical and thrilling novel for our times.’
Like her eponymous heroine, Candice Carty-Williams is someone full of honesty, humour and heart. Her breakout creation has captured the imaginations of countless readers: Queenie was the highest-earning debut hardback novel in the UK last year and was shortlisted, among other prizes, for the Costa First Novel Award. It is now out in paperback (in a range of colours).
Joining Ben Holden and Candice for this episode are Lewisham’s Library Manager, Chris Moore, and Rachel New, Outreach Officer for Lewisham Libraries.
http://www.candicecartywilliams.com/
A few of Candice's favourite authors as a teen and now
Noughts & Crosses
by Malorie Blackman
They've been friends since they were children, and they both know that's as far as it can ever go. Noughts and Crosses are fated to be bitter enemies - love is out of the question.
Forever
by Judy Blume
Forever is still the bravest, freshest, fruitiest and most honest account of first love, first sex and first heartbreak ever written for teens.
The Story of Tracy Beaker
by Jacqueline Wilson
Tracy is ten years old. She lives in a Children's Home but would like a real home one day, with a real family. Meet Tracy, follow her story and share her hopes for the future
Girl, Woman, Otherby Bernardine Evaristo
This is Britain as you've never seen it. This is Britain as it has never been told.
From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the twenty-first, Girl Woman Other follows a cast of twelve characters on their personal journeys through this country and the last hundred years.
Noughts & Crosses
by Malorie Blackman
They've been friends since they were children, and they both know that's as far as it can ever go. Noughts and Crosses are fated to be bitter enemies - love is out of the question.
Forever
by Judy Blume
Forever is still the bravest, freshest, fruitiest and most honest account of first love, first sex and first heartbreak ever written for teens.
The Story of Tracy Beaker
by Jacqueline Wilson
Tracy is ten years old. She lives in a Children's Home but would like a real home one day, with a real family. Meet Tracy, follow her story and share her hopes for the future
Girl, Woman, Otherby Bernardine Evaristo
This is Britain as you've never seen it. This is Britain as it has never been told.
From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the twenty-first, Girl Woman Other follows a cast of twelve characters on their personal journeys through this country and the last hundred years.
Non-fiction
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
by Austin Channing Brown
An eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian, and female that exposes how white America's love affair with "diversity" so often falls short of its ideals.
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
by Robin DiAngelo
Anger. Fear. Guilt. Denial. Silence. These are the ways in which ordinary white people react when it is pointed out to them that they have done or said something that has - unintentionally - caused racial offence or hurt.
How to Be an Antiracist
by Ibram X. Kendi
When it comes to racism, neutrality is not an option: until we become part of the solution, we can only be part of the problem.
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
by Austin Channing Brown
An eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian, and female that exposes how white America's love affair with "diversity" so often falls short of its ideals.
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
by Robin DiAngelo
Anger. Fear. Guilt. Denial. Silence. These are the ways in which ordinary white people react when it is pointed out to them that they have done or said something that has - unintentionally - caused racial offence or hurt.
How to Be an Antiracist
by Ibram X. Kendi
When it comes to racism, neutrality is not an option: until we become part of the solution, we can only be part of the problem.
Ex Libris podcast
The world over, libraries are in crisis. The UK alone is currently losing more than two for every week of the year. Independent bookshops meanwhile face challenges like never before.
Ex Libris is a podcast celebrating these sacred institutions - society’s safe spaces - and raising awareness of their plight, with the help of some of the greatest writers at work today.
Libraries, in particular, are civic society’s sole remaining ‘safe spaces’. In our troubled times, these multi-faceted, non-judgmental and inherently kind places are absolutely the last things people can afford to lose.
Each episode, host Ben Holden meets a great writer in a library or bookshop of their choosing.
In Ex Libris, the written word blends with the spoken word… to craft a love letter not only to libraries and bookshops – those serendipitous spaces where imagination takes flight – but to reading, writing and freedom of thought.
https://www.exlibrispodcast.com
The world over, libraries are in crisis. The UK alone is currently losing more than two for every week of the year. Independent bookshops meanwhile face challenges like never before.
Ex Libris is a podcast celebrating these sacred institutions - society’s safe spaces - and raising awareness of their plight, with the help of some of the greatest writers at work today.
Libraries, in particular, are civic society’s sole remaining ‘safe spaces’. In our troubled times, these multi-faceted, non-judgmental and inherently kind places are absolutely the last things people can afford to lose.
Each episode, host Ben Holden meets a great writer in a library or bookshop of their choosing.
In Ex Libris, the written word blends with the spoken word… to craft a love letter not only to libraries and bookshops – those serendipitous spaces where imagination takes flight – but to reading, writing and freedom of thought.
https://www.exlibrispodcast.com
For books relevant to Black History in Lewisham look at this older post.
https://lewishamlibraries.blogspot.com/2018/10/black-history-in-lewisham-libraries.html
https://lewishamlibraries.blogspot.com/2018/10/black-history-in-lewisham-libraries.html
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