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David Hilton-Barber was in conversation with Marion Whitehead about biographies and why they are perennial favourites with the reading public at the Bathurst Book Fair’s speaker programme hosted at the Pig and Whistle lounge on Sunday. Picture: FAITH QINGA
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Local publisher and author shares why biographies and memoirs are perennial favourites

The Pig and Whistle lounge was packed with booklovers during the lively speaker programme which headlined at the 18th annual Bathurst Book Fair on Sunday, April 30. In the morning schedule, author and photojournalist Marion Whitehead…

  • Faith Qinga
TELL ME A STORY: Marian Walwyn reads to Victoria Pre-Primary School’s learner, Khaya Jones at the Village Green kiddies’ tent during the Bathurst Book Fair. Picture: FAITH QINGA
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‘Start them young!’

It’s (almost) never too young for books and reading, says educationist. Did you know that you can start reading to your child as young as six months? That’s one of the insights Talk of the Town gained at the Bathurst Book Fair on Sunday,…

  • Faith Qinga