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: 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...
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Hazel Osmond on Read Regional
06 June 2016 by
Writing is a solitary profession, so I was delighted to be given this opportunity, via Read Regional, to travel around...
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Chris Killen on Read Regional
01 June 2016 by
As a writer, most of my engagement with readers has been conducted online and usually consists of nothing more than...
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Ian Clayton on Read Regional
27 April 2016 by
I think the first thing I should say is that I am absolutely delighted to have been asked to tour...
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Caroline Roberts on Read Regional
18 March 2016 by
So, it’s mid-March and we’re off the starting blocks – Read Regional 2016 has begun! I’m Caroline Roberts, a novelist...
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Libraries for Readers and Writers
06 February 2016 by
Libraries have always been enormously important to me, both as a reader and a writer. When my four children were...
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Poetry Powerhouses
17 July 2015 by
My Read Regional events were fun, sometimes dream-like interludes, in the rhythm of the week. I met many dedicated, creative...
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Helen Tookey: At Tynemouth
08 July 2015 by
I can hardly believe that Read Regional 2015 is over already. It seems barely any time at all since we,...