Shadow Beetles and Story Threads
Chairman of the Leeds Big Bookend, Daniel Ingram-Brown tells us about his message behind the first of his Firebird Chronicles series, Rise of the Shadow Stealers. At my book launch for the first of the […]
Tom Maguire – Leeds Radical and Poet by Chris Nickson
Continuing his series of Leeds history posts for the Big Bookend, Chris Nickson explores radicalism in Leeds through the radical and poet, Tom Maguire Leeds – and the West Riding – has a history of
Talking To – Anthony Clavane, author, playwright and journalist
By Paul Whittle Leeds writer Anthony Clavane’s first book, Promised Land, interwove the history of his native city, and his love of its football team, with an autobiographical account of the author’s own upbringing in
Ralph Thoresby by Chris Nickson
Crime author, Chris Nickson writes about Leeds historian, Ralph Thoresby, in the first of a series of Leeds history articles for the Big Bookend. One thing about the writing life: you never know what’s going
Whatever happened to Margaret Jones? by Frances Brody
Whatever happened to Margaret Jones, author of The Day They Put Humpty Together Again …? This book languished on my shelf waiting to be read until a few months ago. It must be a decade since
Re-writing, Re-thinking and Re-singing History by Boff Whalley
That lad at the back of the class, slumped on one elbow and looking out of the window, bored to distraction during a three-hour lesson, that’s me. Last thing on a Friday, an entire afternoon
Talking To – Wes Brown, author of Shark
In the first of an occasional series, we talk to some of the authors involved in the Big Bookend over the last 3 years. By Paul Whittle I first came across Wes Brown and his
Napkin Story: ‘Resurrection’ by Richard Smyth
What better day to close our Napkin story blog series than with one last spook on Friday the 13th! As we come to our final flash fiction piece, ‘Resurrection’, Richard Smyth leaves us with a
Napkin Story: ‘Something Out of Science Fiction’ by Jenny Beech
Our next napkin story winner is Jenny Beech, and her flash fiction piece ‘Something Out of Science Fiction’. The News has been strange these past days. Flickering images of peculiar shadows, the sounds of screams