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Jack Hargreaves’ favourite books

Jack Hargreaves is best known to us as the face and voice of the television series Out of Town and Old Country. Born in 1911, Jack started his long media career in 1931, writing technical material for Unilever Livestock Foods. He then became a feature journalist for The Express and The Mirror, moving on to […]

World Book Day 2020 – Jack Hargreaves

It’s WORLD BOOK DAY today! With the rain coming out of the sky again, I wonder how many of you will be buying a new book or re-reading a favourite book? Jack Hargreaves was a great lover of words and books. He read and wrote a lot, but most of us remember him in his […]

The Nilgiris Library, Ooty

It was the serendipity of social media which put me in touch with artist and author, Saaz Aggarwal, and through her, with Kamala Ramchand of the Nilgiri Library Book Club, Ooty (also called Udhagamandalam). I felt greatly honoured to be asked to meet with the Book Club members and present to the library a […]

An Elephant Kissed My Window

An Elephant Kissed My Window by M Ravindran and Saaz Aggarwal ISBN: 9789383465149 Recently I came upon this book and was instantly transported back to the tea plantations of South India which I was lucky enough to visit in the 1950s and 60s when my father was a visiting doctor to some of the Nilgiris […]