This article first appeared in the Yorkshire Post on 12 September 2016 and is reproduced by kind permission of Anthony Clavane. He is at Waterstones, Leeds on Monday 19th September talking about his new book […]
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 in
In the first of an occasional series, we talk to some of the authors involved in the Big Bookend over the last 3 years. By Paul Whittle I first came across Wes Brown and his
With a new year nearly upon us, like the Roman god Janus, we look back at 2013 and forward to the Big Bookend 2014. For the Big Bookend team, 2013 has flown by in a
Leeds author, Anthony Clavane examines Eddie Waring, Rugby League, Yorkshireness, revenge, revolution, betrayal and why trilby hats went out of fashion in his latest play, Playing the Joker, at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, 19th-23rd November.
LS13 writer, AJ Kirby, considers Leeds’s ever-growing situation in the literary world. London-based Tottenham Hotspur Football Club always used to talk about it being their fate to win a trophy in a year ending in a
Hi Big Bookenders! I’m Steph, and I volunteered for this year’s Big Bookend festival. Having just finished my English Literature degree at Sheffield University, I really wanted to get involved with a Yorkshire-based literary festival
