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A Yorkshire Celebration with Hazel Goss, Emily Trisk, Julia Usman, and Paul Smith
August 1 was Yorkshire Day, so what better way to celebrate than having a panel of Yorkshire authors discussing their work (the event was recorded August 4). Each writer started by reading an extract of their work. Hazel Goss started with ‘The Pathway Back’ which is the first book in her Pathway trilogy. This is… read more…
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What I’ve Been Reading This Month – August 2023
I am currently doing the research for my new story about a young gypsy girl and ‘The Wind on The Heath’ by John Sampson is absolutely fascinating. This is an anthology of poetry and prose and the list of writers range from Shakespeare to Robert Browning and Charles Dickens. Gypsies are seen as mysterious and… read more…
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What I’ve Been Reading This Month – July 2023
My first book this month was recommended by a friend as ‘something interesting’, as I’m a bit of a history enthusiast. ‘The Cloisters’ by Katy Hays is the story of a young intern who goes to New York and ends up at The Cloisters which is a very opulent and upmarket private museum. Sadly, this… read more…
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Panel Discussion – Crime Writing with Martin Venning, Stephanie Rogers, AK Adams, Catherine Yaffe, and Angela Wren
It was a very special event this month when we welcomed five crime writers to Books and Beverages UK at Harrogate Library but let Cat, one of our authors tell you all about it. The ONLY Harrogate crime writer event that matters Saturday 8th July 2023 It was a thundery, rainy Saturday afternoon when myself… read more…
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What I’ve Been Reading This Month – June 2023
Many years ago, I read Laurie Lee’s ‘Cider with Rosie’ which was his account of growing up in a remote Cotswold village in the 1920s and 30s. This month I finally read ‘When I Walked Out One Summer’s Morning’, which picks up his story of how he left his village in 1934 and walked first… read more…
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Following Your Heart
©Stephanie Rogers What’s it like writing psychological thrillers? Well, maybe you have to have a bit of a weird brain, as you become quite obsessed with how other people’s minds work. That’s me, anyway. When someone thinks or acts totally different to what we (society) class as normal, then it can often be frightening or… read more…
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Favourite Childhood Books
©Judith Lonsdale There must have been a time before I could read but what I can remember is sitting in class at school with a reading book in front of me feeling quite triumphant after sounding out o-c-e-a-n and connecting it to ‘ocean’. That was a hard word for a five year old which was… read more…
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Interview – Writing for Children with Jane Clack and Anne Bullen
June is Child Awareness month and for this month’s Books and Beverages, local authors Jane Clack and Anne Bullen joined me to talk about their writing. Both authors began their writing after retirement. Jane, inspired by her lifetime love of children’s picture books, has gone on to author eight books to date. Anne, instead, hadn’t… read more…
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What I’ve Been Reading This Month – May 2023
The first book I read this month was ‘My Constant Lady’ which is the first novel in the Reynolds’ saga written by Jane Fenwick. I have written about this before as Jane and I discussed her writing at this month’s Books and Beverages at Harrogate Library but I want to share some more thoughts with… read more…
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