Read, Watch & Listen
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5 years of pirates and princesses, astronauts and aliens, magicians and monsters
23 November 2017 by
The Monster Zoo cast and crew: Clockwise from top left Joe Johnston, Rachel Gay, Zoe Lambert, Andy Stephenson, Stacey Sampson, Ruth...
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Sarah Dunnakey: The Northern Writers’ Awards
21 November 2017 by
On Thursday 30th January 2014 I was sitting at my computer. Working. But I had the occasional glance at Twitter...
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Penned in the Margins: Clarissa Luard Award Shortlisted Publishers
18 October 2017 by
Penned in the Margins’ first incarnation was as a reading series in a converted railway arch in south London. It...
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Little Toller Books: Clarissa Luard Award Shortlisted Publishers
16 October 2017 by
When Gracie and I moved to west Dorset, ten years ago now, I’d spend hours in the County Museum library...
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An Interview with Gwendoline Riley
12 October 2017 by
Neve, a writer in her mid-thirties, is married to an older man, with whom she has a fractious and occasionally...
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An Interview with Lara Pawson
12 October 2017 by
Lara Pawson’s This is the Place to Be is an autobiography told in stark fragments of memory. Detailing her experiences...
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An Interview with David Keenan
12 October 2017 by
This Is Memorial Device is a novel about the greatest band that never existed, told through twenty-six chapters by a...
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An Interview with Kapka Kassabova
12 October 2017 by
Kapka Kassabova’s Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe recounts an extraordinary journey to the borderlands of Eastern Europe....
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An Interview with Denise Mina
11 October 2017 by
The Long Drop is a true crime novel which recounts the story of Peter Manuel, a serial killer operating in...
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An Interview with Adelle Stripe
11 October 2017 by
Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile is a novel inspired by the bittersweet life of the Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar,...
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Lantana Publishing: Clarissa Luard Award Shortlisted Publishers
10 October 2017 by
Alice Curry (Founder) with Chicken in the Kitchen author Nnedi Okorafor and illustrator Mehrdokht Amini at the Children’s Africana Book...
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WriteNow Live Newcastle
02 October 2017 by
Writing is a very solitary pursuit. Musicians can jam together, artists can paint together. We writers, us storytellers, do what...