Reading Quaker Meeting: A History Danny Hayward

Reading Quaker Meeting: A History Danny HaywardClose to Readings busy centre, off London Street, stands the Friends Meeting House and burial ground. Austere, grand and yet welcoming, it can be both a place of challenge and a place of rest. But a Meeting is the people itself, not the building, and through overlapping generations this keeps a continuity across 350 years. This book outlines the long and at times surprisingly turbulent and moving story of the Reading Quaker Meeting.

burning always with radical and often shocking self-criticism

which nonetheless sit beautifully on the page and move easily between playfulness and a great humanity

Were these all inventions of his fervid mind

dry wit and social conscience that have made Su Tong the ‘master of implication’ among China’s leading writers

and countless romantic entanglements

even after you think you’ve gotten your fairy-tale ending

a ‘moving or breaking to sight’ of the suppressed or denied and a sharing of delight in ‘bright things’ and in the goodness of the world

‘Against barbarity

Massachusetts

Written as a circular mixture of narrative-poetry

Bristol and Cambridge

ancient chalk figures and eerie suburbs: the ruins of prehistoric pasts and utopian futures