Reading's Influential WomenA wide ranging and fact filled compendium of influential women, all with a connection to the Reading area. Some are well known international names, others deserve to be. They are pioneers, familiar faces, recognisable voices, unsung heroes, campaigners, world changers, socialists, celebrities, Olympic champions, writers, artists, and scientists. This book features more than 60 individual Women who have a connection with Reading and have made a notable

Roger McGough…and John Arlott

But who are these ghosts

Jamila Omairah

A prolific poet

TRIBUTE to Doris Kilias 1942–2008

But each group relates in different ways to colonialism and their failure to communicate openly about those differences leads to mutual suspicions that provide their enemies with the means to destroy them

Lebanon: Four Journeys to the Past by Roseanne Saad Khalaf

How do we overcome them and build a better life for us and those around us

The novel sets out to retrieve the word at the tip of his tongue

or where their real allegiances lie

near Scarborough

legends and sayings that tell the story of bread