by Gladstones Library | Wednesday, 26th November 2014

Eight of the world’s most exciting writers will spend up to a month at Britain’s only residential and Prime Ministerial library, as part of Gladstone’s Library’s increasingly competitive Writer-in-Residence scheme.

by Gladstones Library | Thursday, 06th November 2014

Cathy Grimmer won a competition through Writing Magazine to our micro literary festival Hearth. Here’s what she thought…

by Gladstones Library | Thursday, 06th November 2014

Within the first month of my internship, Siân (one of the previous interns) had embarked upon a day-long bookbinding course. Although I’d spent much of my life around books, as silly as it seems, the thought had never occurred to me that some books were made by human hands. I rather expected all books nowadays to be stamped into existence by a great, clunking, efficient machine. I thought that hand-bound books belonged to the centuries before industry charged into towns and cities and made flesh hands idle and cold metal grind.