The ninth Morley Literature festival launches today with a programme of exciting events that will appeal to all ages. In addition to their adult, family and schools programme, 2014 introduces events specially aimed at budding young writers and […]
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 was
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 of
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 Leeds’
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 Manston
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 think
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 Leeds
Flash Fiction enthusiast and Leeds Big Bookend team member, Vicky Pointing, talks to us about her most recent project with Tiny Owl, ‘Krampus Crackers’. Read on to find out what she’s up to, and how
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 of
