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...
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...
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...
Our “Talking To” post this week is also a competition give away. Read on and find out how you could win a copy of Anne O’Brien’s latest novel, The Scandalous Duchess, published today! By...
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...
You may or may not have discovered our Competitions page, but this year the Leeds Big Bookend is hosting two writing competitions aimed at our younger readers. For 5-11 year olds, there are two...
On this Valentine’s Day and in the centenary year of the outbreak of the Great War, author Mandy Kirkby reminds us that, “We are human and, especially where love is concerned, we can’t help...
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...
Rebecca Leeming, an English Literature graduate and Leeds Big Bookend volunteer, shares her passion for Roald Dahl’s life and work in this week’s post. ‘And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world...
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...
