Come along to a vibrant evening of readings, speakers, food and music to celebrate this new collection of poems by Dr Kemi Atanda Ilori which pays tribute to the Nobel prize winning playwright and poet,...
Have you ever asked, ‘What if?’ What if we lived in a totalitarian state run by Big Brother? What if we lived in a world where the fight for power and occupation of thrones...
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...
A year of hearing, creating and learning about stories, led by author and theatre producer Daniel Ingram-Brown, in association with LCI and the Big Bookend. Woodcutters in Killingbeck, wolves on Woodhouse Moor and heroes emerging...
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...
The third Wakefield Lit Fest has grown to 60 plus events this year — with opportunities for everyone, whatever your background or level of experience with books, writing, and reading. This year their theme...
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...
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...
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...
The sixth book in the Kate Shackleton mystery series from author Frances Brody, set in 1920s Yorkshire, Death of an Avid Reader will have its launch on Saturday, 4 October, 11 am, in the historic...
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