Dickens for Sepia Saturday [Sepia Saturday is a group I take part in ever week where the host puts up a photo each week as a prompt for other members - see last photo below for this week] For me there could only be one interpretation ... Read more

  National Library Day Saturday 4 February was National Library day in the UK. I had the pleasure of attending Stockton Central Library for a talk and book signing by Peter Robinson, the creator of the Inspector Banks detective/mystery ... Read more

If you fancy some online editing practice Dickens Journals Online is the place to go. I've signed up for their Online Text Correction Project and am in the process of editing a magazine published by Dickens in All The Year Round in 1864.   The... Read more

A STAC Casebook Crime - by David Robinson.   Review by Bob Scotney   A quarterly trip of the Sanford Third Age Club (STAC) to Filey and Scarborough is marred by the disappearance and subsequent death of Eddie Roberts one of its me... Read more

While in Cornwall earlier this month we visited the city of Truro where I’m pleased to say we avoided the shops.Inside the cathedral we found this painting which shows an aerial view of the county: Cornubia -Land of the S... Read more

Today the BBC have shown the first of four episode of the new series of Just William. This reminded me of a piece I wrote for Yarm Writers Group.   Just Childhood   “I’ll thcream. I’ll thcream and thcream and thcrea... Read more

  In 1859 the magazine Household Words was replaced by All The Year Round. The new magazine still covered social issues but concentrated on literary matters. Several important novels were serialised in the magazine including Charles Dick... Read more

  The weather on the evening of 22 November was wet and miserable. That was probably why the turnout for David Almond at Stockton-on-Tees Central Library was so poor. This well known author of children’s literature deserved a bigger ... Read more

  The Sixth Fickling Lecture on Developments in Children’s Literature   Fighting Words: the write to right   Thursday 18 November 2010 – Curtis Auditorium, Hershel Building, Newcastle University.   Fighti... Read more

The Seven Stories, the Centre for Children’s Books were the co-sponsors for the Sixth Annual Fickling Lecture on Developments in Children’s Literature given by Roddy Doyle on 18 November at Newcastle University’s Curtis Auditori... Read more