Blog Posts
Interviews, stories and useful advice: our blog is regularly updated with a broad range of new articles to read, including content from our Northern Bookshelf quarterly newsletter.
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Interview with Una
27 September 2018 by
Cree tells the story of Jolene, a woman from Durham who finds solace, support and ultimately hope from attending the women’s...
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What we’re reading: Autumn edition
27 September 2018 by
Laura Fraine As we gear up for Durham Book Festival starting next week, my work life seems to be hurtling...
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Read Regional: War and Memory
02 August 2018 by
Read Regional transported me from Hull to Carlisle and from Yorkshire to County Durham, where libraries created the warmest welcome...
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Read Regional: The Value of a Good Library
31 July 2018 by
This is my second year on the Read Regional campaign, a feat which I don’t think has happened before! I...
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10 Things I Know About Public Art
23 July 2018 by
You have a 1 in 6 chance, if you take a Go North East bus, of coming across one of...
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Read Regional: A memoir
06 July 2018 by
As my train to Hull passed under the north end of the Humber Bridge, taking me to my last Read...
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Read Regional: Book Baby – How to be a Writer and a Mother?
04 July 2018 by
I submitted the final version of my manuscript of How Saints Die to my editor on 4th December 2016 and...
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Secret Diary of a Fledgling Freelancer
02 July 2018 by
Breathe. And again. Your fraud pants are invisible. They are, aren’t they? Quick, check! Yes, they are indeed invisible, now...
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Why it’s important to rebalance the books
15 June 2018 by
As part of our year-round work developing new writers we are proud to partner with Penguin Random House’s WriteNow programme,...
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Read Regional: A whistle-stop tour
13 June 2018 by
In a scruffy clearing in Cleckheaton woodland, a middle-aged man breaks into a sonorous chorus of the folk standard ‘Who...
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The North Recommends: Garden Village Book Club
08 June 2018 by
In February of this year I asked people in our local community if they’d be interested in joining a book...
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The North Recommends: The Big Malarkey Festival
08 June 2018 by
I suffer from acute sweetshop syndrome when considering the acres of possibility for programming The Big Malarkey Festival, Hull Libraries’...
