We caught up with Alex Preston, author of the acclaimed As Kingfishers Catch Fire, ahead of his event at WildLines @ The Leeds Library later this month. If you want to find out more about […]
The Saboteur Award winning anthology, Remembering Oluwale, was a partnership project sparked from an idea in 2016 by Max Farrar, Secretary of the David Oluwale Memorial Association (DOMA), for a book that responded to David
Writer Richard Smyth talks quizzes, crosswords and his passion for 1920s New York. Come along to our Jazz Age inspired quiz, 3pm on Sunday 5th February at Outlaws Yacht Club, Leeds and pit your wits
Chairman of the Leeds Big Bookend, Daniel Ingram-Brown tells us about his message behind the first of his Firebird Chronicles series, Rise of the Shadow Stealers. At my book launch for the first of the
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
You may or may not have discovered our Competitions page, but this year the Leeds Big Bookend is hosting two writing competitions aimed at our younger readers. For 5-11 year olds, there are two competitions
Rebecca Leeming, an English Literature graduate and Leeds Big Bookend volunteer, shares her passion for Roald Dahl’s life and work in this week’s post. ‘And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around
That lad at the back of the class, slumped on one elbow and looking out of the window, bored to distraction during a three-hour lesson, that’s me. Last thing on a Friday, an entire afternoon
Colin Stathers is our next Napkin winner, with his spooky Halloween-themed story ‘Trick Or Treat’. Trick Or Treat Help. The word never left his lips. Only the muffled sound of rummaging, somewhere close by, pervaded
