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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Durham Book Group: The Muse by Jessie Burton
25 November 2016 by
Hello to all our members and welcome to Paula and Sam who joined us for their first time at our...
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What kind of relationship do we have with the truth?
18 November 2016 by
My new novel, An Honest Deceit, asks – what kind of relationship do we have with the truth? Given that...
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Whitley Bay Book Group: Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
16 November 2016 by
I was impressed that so many people had come out on such a cold and dark November evening for our...
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Durham Book Group: Writing the First World War
12 November 2016 by
October’s reading choice was Pat Barker’s ‘Regeneration’, the first of a trilogy of First World War novels in which she...
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Laura Barnett: Blog on Kathryn Williams’s writers’ retreat for Durham Book Festival 2016
03 November 2016 by
Writing, for me, is usually a solitary activity. I’m not one of those authors who can tap out a few...
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Whitley Bay Book Group: My Name is Leon by Kit de Waal
14 October 2016 by
It was lovely to meet Jenny, who joined us for the first time on Wednesday evening, for what turned out...
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Whitley Bay Book Group: On Beauty by Zadie Smith
30 September 2016 by
What a lovely start to our first session back after the summer break – not only do we welcome three...
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Gordon Burn makes me want to write
22 September 2016 by
In his introduction to Sex & Violence, Death & Silence, the posthumously published collection of Gordon Burn’s superlative writing on...
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Durham Book Group: My Name is Leon
22 September 2016 by
Our reading choice for September was Kit de Waal’s My Name is Leon, the second book we’ve read as a...
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Rachel McIntyre on Read Regional
27 July 2016 by
When I first began Me and Mr J, I wrote for the enjoyment of it, not really imagining that one...
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Whitley Bay Book Group: The Woodcutter by Reginald Hill
24 July 2016 by
We were a slightly smaller group than usual this month, and I’m not sure if the less-literary-than-normal title put people...
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Crista Ermiya on Read Regional
13 July 2016 by
The short story is a form that appears to be simultaneously neglected and enjoying a renaissance. I was very happy...
