Death of an Avid Reader, my sixth murder mystery featuring Leeds-based Kate Shackleton, First World War widow turned sleuth, partly set in the historic Leeds Library, is published on 2 October. I’m not sure of […]
Chris Nickson would like to thank Suzanne Grace for sharing this Youtube video with him, taken from the ‘Mobs of America’ documentary on TG4. This week Chris Nickson writes about Owen Madden, one of Leeds’
Frances Brody shares the history of the Barnbow workers behind her novel Somewhere Behind the Morning, published under the name Frances McNeil. On a bitterly cold morning a year or so ago, a small crowd gathered in Manston
Co-ordinator of the children’s programme for this year’s Leeds Big Bookend, Vicky Pointing, shares her experience and advice from the festival. Perhaps you’re an aspiring children’s writer, or maybe you have kids of your own and think
I don’t mean to gloat but there are often times when I love my job. In preparation for an upcoming exhibition* in the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, I was asked to research the poet/author/critic
Forgotten Leeds – a mini-series of short introductions to three little-known figures connected to Leeds by birth and/or their work here in the city – part two: John Wainwright (1921-1995) – the forgotten novelist: a
Chris Nickson opens our eyes to the real Leeds of the Victorian era, and the shockingly unsanitary conditions that Loiners suffered throughout the Industrial Revolution. Imagine a place where the average life expectancy of the
Chris Nickson’s monthly instalment of Leeds history looks at how the public transportation revolution changed people’s lives in Leeds for the better. Several months ago, there was some online debate about the ‘doughnut of despair,’
This week, Richard Smyth examines the interplay of happiness and unhappiness in literary work, and what draws people to read melancholic writing. I’m writing this on the International Day of Happiness. Happiness has a complicated
