Plackitt & Booth Booksellers Ltd are a super successful indie bookshop made up of husband and wife team Alison Plackitt and Patrick Booth. They've been running high profile author events and serving the good folk of Lytham, Lancashire for the last 18 years. Find out about what they've been up to and the books that they're loving at the moment.
As we gear up for the upcoming Durham Book Festival, we're keen to share with you a selection of the books we've been reading, from authors that will be featuring in this year's programme of events. With the darker nights approaching, here are our recommended reads to settle down with.
Creating your own peer network is incredibly important for writers – but how do you get it started? In this post our 2019 Newcastle Writing Conference volunteer Jawwad Mustafa recaps the day and discusses the importance of connections in the writing world.
Our next Read Regional blog is from author Mark Illis. In this post he talks about his journeys to far-flung parts of the north and some of the best parts of his school visits.
Cogito Books is an independent bookshop with a unique and carefully curated collection of titles, beautifully presented in a welcoming and relaxing environment. In this post, find out about what books they love and what they're getting up to in the coming months.
IRON Press has been championing new quality writing since 1973. In this blog post IRON Press editor Peter Mortimer looks back (and forward) to a quartet of Festivals and lets us know what he's looking forward to in the IRON OR lineup this June.
Supper Club is a secret society for hungry women. Women who are sick of bad men and bad sex, of hinted expectations to be thinner, smile more, talk less. So they gather at night to feast and drink and dance, seeking the answer to a simple question- if you feed a starving woman, what will she grow into?
Author Lara Williams gives us an insight into her new novel Supper Club, hunger, and her development as a writer.
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 collections to deliver to their members alongside the PBS Bulletin magazine full of poems, interviews, reviews and offers. See what their summer reads are in this blog.
For this issue we've got some recommendations from Rebecca, one of our fantastic young writers! If you've got a hankering to get your teeth into some young adult fiction then read on.
Book and Brew is a book group based in Newcastle. It’s been going since 2015 when its founder, Dawn McGuigan, set it up from her sofa one Saturday night in December. A month later, she waited in a cafe to see if anyone would turn up to the first meeting - to read Jessie Burton’s debut novel, The Miniaturist - and was pleasantly surprised (and relieved!) when several women turned up to share their views of the book. In this post, Dawn lets us know what they've been reading.
We're tiding over the wait for real sunshine in the office by debating on what books we should be taking on holiday. While we haven't been able to come to a definitive list, we've still managed to put together a jam-packed post full of books we either love or can't wait to read. Find out what we're packing for our holidays here.
