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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Spotlight on The BookTrail: A Literary Travel Agency
28 April 2017 by
The BookTrail is a literary travel agency, which offers readers and travellers alike the chance to travel via fiction and...
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Phaedra Patrick’s Read Regional experience so far
27 April 2017 by
The author of The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper talks about her experience of taking part in Read Regional 2017…...
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My first half term leading Durham Cuckoo Young Writers
06 April 2017 by
Lisa writes about her experience so far of leading Durham’s Cuckoo Young Writers group. Held weekly in term time, our...
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Parents’ Book Group: The Muse by Jessie Burton
31 March 2017 by
Our March read was Jessie Burton’s second novel, The Muse, the much-anticipated follow-up to her 2014 debut, The Miniaturist. The...
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Read Regional event review: Gulwali Passarlay at Newcastle City Library
31 March 2017 by
Can you remember what you were doing when you were 13? I was debating the merits of individual boyband members...
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Read Regional Interview with Phaedra Patrick
20 March 2017 by
Phaedra Patrick is one of the 12 authors on this year’s Read Regional line up. Her book, The Curious Charms...
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Gulwali Passarlay Rocks Hexham! (Read Regional 2017)
16 March 2017 by
Read Regional in Northumberland Libraries got off to a great start on World Book Day (Thursday 2 March) with an...
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The Julia Darling Travel Fellowship: Michelle Green in Hayling Island
11 March 2017 by
In 2016 the Julia Darling Travel Fellowship was awarded to Manchester writer Michelle Green. The fellowship allowed Michelle to spend...
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Read Regional book review: The Lost Art of Sinking by Naomi Booth
01 March 2017 by
Dawn Tindle runs Book and Brew, which is a blog for readers, writers and book lovers. Throughout March she is our...
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Lines of Thought… It’s Never Dull in Hull
27 February 2017 by
It makes you think, all this culture business. And it is a business. A report early last year estimated that...
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Back to Ours
20 February 2017 by
You’re throwing a party. One that’s going to make such a splash that everyone wants to be on the guest...
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Whitley Bay Book Group: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
17 February 2017 by
After January’s atmospheric trip to the North West of England, this month we were off to sunnier climes – Naples...
