'It's not all roses around the door'

Anna Hutton-North was born in St Albans and now lives in Flaunden, near Hemel Hempstead

10:18am Wednesday 15th May 2013

Writer Anna Hutton-North talks to Rosy Moorhead about Rural Affairs, her novel set in a fictional Hertfordshire village

In memory of Mary's poems

Mary Skinner lived in Hertfordshire for more than 50 years and taught English in Townsend School in St Albans

4:53pm Wednesday 8th May 2013

A collection of poems by Harpenden poet Mary Skinner has been published after her death

Welwyn crime writer Howard Linskey is ready to bring his books to the screen

Howard Linskey moved to Harpenden 11 years ago before settling in Welwyn Garden City

10:23am Thursday 2nd May 2013

Welwyn Garden City crime writer Howard Linskey tells Rosy Moorhead about the release of his new book, The Dead, and the TV treatment for his first book, The Drop

Book festival for kids and their grown-ups

St Albans illustrator Nigel Baines will be drawing zombies and horrible things for the kids

5:25pm Wednesday 10th April 2013

Luton Hoo Walled Garden welcomes the second annual Hoo's Kids Book Fest, writes Rosy Moorhead

It really was the good old days

The Scouts camping in 1937. Photograph taken from The Best of Times

10:12am Wednesday 20th March 2013

John Seabrook has compiled a book of life in Harpenden from the Roaring Twenties to the Swinging Sixties - The Best of Times. He talks to Rosy Moorhead

St Albans is the backdrop to Jo Platt's debut novel, Reading Upside Down

Jo Platt loved living in St Albans

10:27am Wednesday 20th March 2013

St Albans is the backdrop to Jo Platt's debut novel, Reading Upside Down

Mary Queen of Shops helps Oxhey author Katharine McMahon with her reading

Oxhey author Katharine McMahon will read from her latest book at Waterstone’s

11:39am Friday 5th June 2009

The Richard and Judy book club shortlisted author presents a dramatised reading of her new book The Crimson Rooms with a little help from Mary Portas star of the BBC Two show Mary Queen of Shops. Melanie Dakin reports



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