The Leeds Big Bookend is delighted to announce that our driving force, Fiona Gell, has been shortlisted for the Project Volunteer Award of the Year, organised by Yorkshire Women Volunteer Awards. She continues to be […]
Big Bookend 2014 is pleased to announce the winners of their two writing competitions for under 18s. Pupils from eight different schools across Leeds took part in the challenge – for primary school pupils, to
Join us tomorrow evening, Thursday 29th May, for a unique jazz and poetry event with Peter Spafford and Richard Ormrod. This event will take place at Arts@Trinity on Boar Lane. Tickets are £6. Full information
This week, Richard Smyth examines the interplay of happiness and unhappiness in literary work, and what draws people to read melancholic writing. I’m writing this on the International Day of Happiness. Happiness has a complicated
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
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
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
On this Valentine’s Day and in the centenary year of the outbreak of the Great War, author Mandy Kirkby reminds us that, “We are human and, especially where love is concerned, we can’t help but
Crime author, Chris Nickson writes about Leeds historian, Ralph Thoresby, in the first of a series of Leeds history articles for the Big Bookend. One thing about the writing life: you never know what’s going
