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A popular craft fair hosted by a Sleaford area church returned this month after a break because of Covid last year.

Suhail Aziz’s book, Breakthrough (Book Guild, 2020), is a memoir of a British Bengali and his intertwined personal story of love and prejudice. Aziz is best known within the UK Bengali community for his involvement with the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE).

The Herald and publishing firm Mighty Pens teamed up to encourage short story writers with a competition earlier this year. We received well over 150 excellent submissions and ran the winning entries in spring. Mighty Pens have now worked with the best commended authors and we will be running their stories each Saturday over summer. Heres The No. 4 by James Fitzsimons of Giffnock, near Glasgow. My bus stop is a bit clumsy. I’m sure the wee shelter is a standard size. It’s the pavement tha...

The cover of Steven Harris book The Man from Harrods. - Credit: The Book Guild Ltd From foster care in Stevenage to piano tuning in Harrods... a new memoir charts an authors unusual and unexpected career. It’s a pretty boring job, tuning pianos? Anyway, isn’t it a dying craft now? ‘ The Man from Harrods: Turners Round - Pianos, Patrons and Patience gives an insiders view of Steven Harris years as a piano tuner in London’s most famous department store. He said: “I wrote this bo...