His Name is Boo and He’s The Big Bookend’s Mascot
Owls are a big thing in Leeds. You only have to look around and they are everywhere. For the first time this year, we have our own too. Cute little Boo. You will see...
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The Big Bookend Programme 2015 – Mapping Leeds
This year the Leeds Big Bookend Festival will become a living map of the city What is Leeds? A place defined by its history, by the stories we recount and the events that have...
Of Facts and Tales by Chris Nickson
Chris Nickson tells us some tales of Leeds that are all but forgotten. You can hear about his Leeds, The Biography: A History of Leeds in Short Stories at the Big Bookend festival on Saturday 6th...
Book Review of Finding Mr Goldman by Linda Casper
Linda Casper’s review of Finding Mr Goldman is the winning entry in our review competition. In true parable fashion, Rhodes doesn’t waste a word in this novel which leads the reader through a series of...
The Silverdale Children’s Holiday Centre by Frances Brody
Frances Brody reminisces about the Silverdale Children’s Holiday Centre and how it was the inspiration for two of her earlier books. Frances, along with Oliver Cross and Richard Wilcocks will be recounting Extraordinary Tales...
The Man in the Monkeynut Coat by Kersten Hall
In this week’s article, Kersten Hall tells us about Leeds-based physicist William Astbury, the unsung hero of DNA whom he writes about in his book The Man in the Monkeynut Coat. Sir Isaac Newton once famously...
Jon Silkin Complete Poems. Launch Events at Leeds University, Thursday 30 April 2015
In February this year, Jon Silkin’s Complete Poems was published by Carcanet, following several years’ work by co-editors Jon Glover and Kathryn Jenner. Despite being well known during his lifetime as a poet, editor...
Leeds coulda been a Contender, Leeds coulda been Hollywood by Chris Nickson
This month, Chris Nickson delves into the mystery of the disappearance of former Leeds resident, Louis Le Prince and what that could have meant for Leeds had he not vanished without trace. It is a truth universally acknowledged that the first...
Via Negativa by Ian Duhig
In advance of the Oluwale Partnership Symposium on 17 April, we publish Ian Duhig’s Via Negativa, remembering David Oluwale. Not circumcellion, beggar, gyrovague but Lagos Christian college boy. Not abbey-lubber but job-seeker. Not City of God but...
Remembering by Ian Duhig
In advance of the Oluwale Partnership Symposium being held at Leeds Beckett University on Friday 17th April, Ian Duhig remembers how he first came to hear about David Oluwale’s story and the mark it left...
