Read Regional

Read Regional: The 10 Best Things To Do in X

19 June 2019 by Mark Illis

When I think about my novels I sometimes imagine them sinking slowly, or not so slowly, into a great dark...
Read Regional: Connections

12 June 2019 by John Challis

“It seems there’s a sense of disconnect between you and your father.” I’m in South Shields at The Word, and...
Read Regional: Nature on the Road

03 June 2019 by Karen Lloyd

My Read Regional events began with a visit to Darlington Library. Working with the library’s reading group, it was an...
Read Regional: Life as a full-time author

10 May 2019 by Catherine Isaac

There’s one element of being a full-time author I’ve never entirely become used to, even after fourteen years and eleven...
Read Regional: War and Memory

02 August 2018 by Jane Austin

Read Regional transported me from Hull to Carlisle and from Yorkshire to County Durham, where libraries created the warmest welcome...
Read Regional: The Value of a Good Library

31 July 2018 by A.A. Dhand

This is my second year on the Read Regional campaign, a feat which I don’t think has happened before! I...
Read Regional: A memoir

06 July 2018 by Antony Dunn

As my train to Hull passed under the north end of the Humber Bridge, taking me to my last Read...
Read Regional: Book Baby – How to be a Writer and a Mother?

04 July 2018 by Carmen Marcus

I submitted the final version of my manuscript of How Saints Die to my editor on 4th December 2016 and...
Read Regional: A whistle-stop tour

13 June 2018 by Richard Smyth

In a scruffy clearing in Cleckheaton woodland, a middle-aged man breaks into a sonorous chorus of the folk standard ‘Who...
Read Regional: Around the North in Twelve Library Authorities

29 May 2018 by Sarah Dunnakey

In a recent conversation, I was informed by an otherwise reasonable-seeming man that “We don’t need libraries anymore because you...
Read Regional: Poets, past and present

03 May 2018 by Polly Atkin

I’ve been to two of my four Read Regional events, which means I’m halfway through my mini tour of the...
Read Regional: Author on Tour

27 April 2018 by Guy Mankowski

Usually, when a novel comes out I’ve found you have about six weeks. Six weeks of daily notifications on Twitter...