Wes Brown tells us about the five settings in Leeds that inspired his new novel When Lights Are Bright. Vladimir Nabokov would create floor plans of fictional buildings, map routes of characters, draw items of […]
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
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
Wes Brown explains the inspirations behind his Leeds-based novel Shark. Vladimir Nabokov describes inspiration as a ‘throb’ in the spine. That it comes ‘hot’ and ‘brief’. Shark is about many things. Class, masculinity, alienation. It
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
