A year of hearing, creating and learning about stories, led by author and theatre producer Daniel Ingram-Brown, in association with LCI and the Big Bookend. Woodcutters in Killingbeck, wolves on Woodhouse Moor and heroes emerging...
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...
The third Wakefield Lit Fest has grown to 60 plus events this year — with opportunities for everyone, whatever your background or level of experience with books, writing, and reading. This year their theme...
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...
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...
I don’t mean to gloat but there are often times when I love my job. In preparation for an upcoming exhibition* in the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, I was asked to research the...
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...
Forgotten Leeds – a mini-series of short introductions to three little-known figures connected to Leeds by birth and/or their work here in the city – part two: John Wainwright (1921-1995) – the forgotten novelist:...
Young Adult Fiction author Amy Keen will be signing copies of her novels Embers and Ashes in Waterstones Leeds, Saturday 6th September between 11.30-1.30. The Foresight Series is a YA paranormal trilogy which follows...
Chris Nickson opens our eyes to the real Leeds of the Victorian era, and the shockingly unsanitary conditions that Loiners suffered throughout the Industrial Revolution. Imagine a place where the average life expectancy of...
