Karon Alderman discusses her award-winning novel Dark Flood.  After a short reading she will talk about the inspiration for the novel and how we re-tell the stories surrounding us and under our feet.

Military historian John Sadler tells the gripping story of 1461-4, when the deposed King Henry VI moved to Bamburgh, and as a result the Wars of the Roses came to Northumberland.  There were two important pitched battles at Hexham and Hedgeley Moor (near Alnwick).  The...

Les Walton's time-travelling odyssey explores teaching and learning in a 1960s school, challenging today's highly centralised education system and asking "have we lost education's human heart?"