Do you love reading? Have a story you’d like to share, or want to fall in love with your neighbour’s favourite tale? We would love to hear from you. From 6pm we are looking for children to read their favourite story or poem to a…

By Anna Coppinger – Third year BA Geography student at Newcastle University and volunteer at Jesmond Library  What is the Booker Prize? This is an annual literary award given to the best novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland. The…

We are fortunate to have some very talented authors here in the northeast. This blog will focus on those who write crime, mystery and thriller books. Not all the books are set here in the northeast but some are, all are written by local authors,…

In the 18th century Victorians would gather round the flickering lights of an open fire and tell each other ghost stories at Christmas time. But the telling and sharing of scary tales at midwinter goes back much further. As the days grew shorter it must…