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Aspirations wrapped up in books – talking Get It Loud in Libraries with Stewart Parsons
It’ll be 15 years ago this coming May that a pilot show featuring Natascha Sohl lured the BBC’s North West Tonight cameras to Lancaster Central Library, for what turned out to be the debut event of the innovative Get It … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Comedy & Theatre, Music
Tagged Adele, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Belle and Sebastian, BODEGA, British Sea Power, Franz Ferdinand, Get it Loud in Libraries, Hot Chip, Idles, Lancaster, Leyland, Libraries, Morecambe, Penwortham, Preston, Robert Forster, Stewart Parsons, The Long Blondes, The Thrills, Wigan
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The Magnetic North – Liverpool Central Library
You’ve got to love the kind of concert where the band puts a bottle of whisky at the front of the stage for their sell-out audience to share. Now that’s what I call intimate. What’s more, at around half past … Continue reading
On the write wavelength – the Jenn Ashworth interview
Jenn Ashworth is part-way into a busy schedule of promotional visits, travelling to and from her North Lancashire base spreading the word about newly-published, critically-acclaimed novel Fell, a haunting, mysterious tale set on the edge of Morecambe Bay. Born in … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio
Tagged A Kind of Intimacy, Andrew Michael Hurley, Betty Trask Award, Bodleian Library, Cambridge, chorley, Cold Light, Curious Tales Publishing Collective, Ebb & Flo, Fell, Grange-over-Sands, Jenn Ashcroft, lancashire, Lancaster, Libraries, Melvin Burgess, Morecambe Bay, Newnham College, Preston, Shirley Jackson, The Friday Gospels, The Loney
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Looking Glass Girl by Cathy Cassidy – a writewyattuk review
In the year Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland turns 150, we can expect a number of events set around that influential work and all it led to. Alice is a little too Marmite for some tastes, and I totally … Continue reading
University of the Nerd Age – the Talk Nerdy 2 Me feature
According to US young adult author John Green, of The Fault in our Stars fame, ‘Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it’.* In fact, nerdiness is a state of mind for some, and you can include Lancashire … Continue reading
Living the Good Life – the Martina Cole interview
Martina Cole is a publishing phenomenon, having made a habit of smashing sales records with each of her 21 novels. Her hard-hitting, uncompromising writing is in a genre all of its own, and as her publisher puts it, ‘no one … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio
Tagged AJ Cronin, Dangerous Lady, Essex, Jackie Collins, Kent, Libraries, Martina Cole, Preston, The Good life, The Ladykiller, The Runaway, The Take, Two Women, Wilko Johnson
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Arctic adventures, time travel and family secrets
In which writewyattuk gets on the festive bandwagon and selects three great 2012 reads for junior/middle school age children (nine to twelve-ish) – all possible last-minute Christmas buying conundrum solutions. While we’re into the last days of the year, no … Continue reading
Not just any old Witch Way
NO offence intended to East Lancastrians reading this, but it feels like you’re reaching the end of the world when the M65 becomes the A6068 at Colne, and on a miserable late November morning amid a national epidemic of rain, … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure & Travel, Books Films, TV & Radio
Tagged Alice Nutter, Clitheroe, Colne, Garstang, lancashire, Lancaster, Libraries, Livi Michael, Pendle, Witch Trials
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