Róisín Bán by Ian Duhig
You may remember an article Chris Nickson wrote for us awhile ago, Leeds, Motorway City of the Seventies. The poet, Ian Duhig, wrote Róisín Bán about the Irish workers that the M1 brought up and the...
The Big Bookend
Q & A with Michael Yates by Halima Mayat
Halima Mayat interviews Wakefield-based poet, writer and playwright, Michael Yates, for this week’s Big Bookend blog. Why did you decide to write a play about Branwell Bronte? I have a friend Colin Lewisohn who directed...
Isaac the Jew and The Rise of the Leylands by Chris Nickson
This month Chris Nickson explores the history of the Jews in Leeds which informs his next novel, Two Bronze Pennies. There have been Jews in Leeds for over 250 years. In the 18th century...
The Big Bookend. Supported by Waitrose Meanwood’s Community Matters Fund
We are very lucky to have been chosen by Waitrose Community Matters Fund for their Meanwood shop as one of the three organisations in March to receive financial help through their tokens scheme. So...
Drink with a Chimp by Lynsey Jones
Lynsey Jones, a Leeds based actor, talks about her work on an exciting new show, Drink with a Chimp. “Once you are free from addiction, you are free from everything.” Spacious Places Client For the...
One Plus One Equals Three by Simon Brewis from Escape:CYT
Escape:CYT is a youth theatre where young people are writers and theatre makers in their own right. Their new show One Plus One Equals Three opens on Thursday and group director Simon Brewis tells us...
Subversive Peacemakers. Book Launch, 26 March.
Come along to the book launch of Subversive Peacemakers and hear Lindis Percy, Coordinator of the Campaign Against American Bases (CAAB), speak alongside the book’s author Clive Barrett. This event will take place on Thursday 26th March, 6pm...
AJ Kirby’s Perfect World Reviewed by Paul Whittle
Last year AJ Kirby told us about his inspiration for Perfect World and how it came to be written. Paul Whittle now shares with us his review of Perfect World. A. J. Kirby’s novel Perfect World envisages what...
Are You a Liar and a Writer? Then the Liars’ League Leeds Wants Your Submissions by 6th March.
We’re Liars’ League Leeds. We’re the northern cousin of London’s famous Liars’ League, and the transatlantic half-sister of Liars’ League New York City. Pleased to meet you. Every month, we ask you – the...
