In August this year the Stripey Badger Bookshop and its sister business, Stripey Badger Coffee Shop & Kitchen, both opened in Grassington, in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales. Owner Linda Furniss has taken time out of her busy schedule to list some of their current recommendations in this post.
Allerton Book Group is a long established group, which started in about 2000-2001 at Allerton Library in South Liverpool. In this blog post, group member Anne Wilkie lets us know about some of the books the group have enjoyed in the past year.
In the cultural sector we have a tendency to see young people as a group, who sometimes need to be consulted with and to whom projects or opportunities are offered on our terms. This approach often means only those with the most cultural capital find us. It’s important that they do, but we want to attract other young people too. If we start to think about the systems we are creating to engage our young people, and design our programmes according to who we want to engage, then who gets to create and consume culture will start to look very different.
Iain Rowan, winner of the 2018 Arvon Award, lets us know about his experience winning the award and how he spent his time in rural Shropshire.
I’ll start with a confession. When I first read Virginia Woolf’s famous essay ‘A Room of One’s Own’ in my early twenties, I didn’t really relate to it. Fresh out of university and managing my dreams of being a writer alongside my office day job, I responded to Woolf’s feminist politics, but didn’t feel the necessity of her prescription. In fact, I dismissed it as a middle class luxury.
Amanda Quinn was one of 15 writers who took part in Digi_Transform in 2018, working with a mentor to look at her digital profile.
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.
