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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
‘Thank you for your submission. Unfortunately…’: Dealing with rejection
13 February 2017 by
Becky Orwin runs a blog, The Rejection Box, chronicling her ongoing quest to get her first novel published. In 2017...
Made in Hull
07 February 2017 by
Short story writer Sue Wilsea is this month’s blogger-in-residence. She was born in Portsmouth and for the last 20 years...
Parents’ Book Group: The Outrun by Amy Liptrot
07 February 2017 by
Our first read of 2017 was The Outrun by Amy Liptrot. The book chronicles the author’s return home to Orkney...
Ten tips on teaching creative writing
30 January 2017 by
‘I’m a raging extrovert,’ said Cathy Rentzenbrink at last year’s Durham Book Festival, speaking of missing the buzz of office...
Whitley Bay Book Group: The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley
30 January 2017 by
Our first book of 2017, Andrew Michael Hurley’s Costa Winner of 2015 The Loney, was a suitably dark and gothic...
