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The Poetry Book Society is a unique poetry book club, founded by T.S. Eliot and based in Newcastle. Every quarter their selectors choose the best new poetry books to deliver to their members alongside the PBS Bulletin magazine full of poems, interviews, reviews and offers. Here's an insight into their autumn poetry picks.
Imagined Things is a proudly independent bookshop inside the beautiful & iconic Westminster Arcade in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. Owner Georgia Duffy has kindly compiled a great list of books for us that she thinks everyone should be reading right now.
Peepal Tree Press, based in Leeds, is the world’s largest publisher of Caribbean and Black British writing. In this post they give an update on some of their newest books that have hit the presses recently.
Located in the beautiful surroundings of Liverpool’s Calderstones Park, the Storybarn is an interactive story-centre for children to explore, share and discover a love of books and storytelling. Here they tell us about some of their favourite books about books!
The Oxenhope book group, situated in a small village along the Worth Valley from Haworth, is one of 103 book groups supported by the Bradford Library Service. In this post, they let us know about what they've been reading in the past few months.
In 2017 Durham Book Festival commissioned acclaimed graphic novelist Una to create a graphic novel inspired by the people of Durham and its landscapes. Una spent time at the Just for Women Centre in Stanley and the women she met there inspired her book, Cree. In this interview, Una tells us about her experiences in Stanley, the strengths of the graphic novel format, and the importance of centres for women.
Nothing's better than curling up with a book when it's raining and pouring! With this autumn promising more rainy weather that means there's plenty of more time to spend with those books you've been neglecting. To help you out on your reading quest in the coming months, we've put together a list of some of the great Durham Book Festival reads we've been enjoying.
Read Regional writer Jane Austin, author of News from Nowhere, reflects on the importance of the damning impacts of war and the value of remembering our shared history through reading.
Two-time Read Regional author A.A. Dhand (author of City of Sinners, Girl Zero) delves into the highlights of his experience on tour this year.
Anna Woodford's work from her poetry collection, Changing Room, has been featured across the region as part of the Great Exhibition of the North. In this post, Anna expands on 10 things she learnt from the process and the value of grafting.
