Category Archives: Books Club & Literary Work
Yorkshire Book Festival – Leeds 2012
The Big Bookend Festival is almost upon us (13-17 June). Advertised as ‘A Rock Festival for Words’ and using the same catch phrase as last year ‘if you can read this – thank a teacher’ you will discover an interesting … Continue reading
Lee Child Latest – Yorkshire Book Club Offering
Preface to Yorkshire Book Club (A2) Lee Child is a Yorkshire man from Leeds now living and working in the United States of America but we can’t hold that against him. So for that reason we have Lee as our … Continue reading
God’s Own County Book Club Top Ten Travel Guides
South Yorkshire seldom gets coverage because it is not a proper area unlike our three famous ridings, North, West and East. However to redress the balance slightly I have started with this South Yorkshire County Planning Map: No. 1A by … Continue reading
Scarborough Setting for 1st Yorkshire Book Club Offering
Preface to Yorkshire Book Club (A1) Finding a book to start Yorkshire – God’s Own County book club proved to be an interesting challenge. Should we opt for a tried and tested author who was already popular and well known? … Continue reading
Yorkshire – God’s Own County Book Club
We are launching a simple new book club but we are not reprising books covered earlier even though due to popular demand we may show the odd link. The God’s Own County Book Club is an internet phenomenon based on … Continue reading
Know Your Oliver Onions Yorkshire’s Ghost Story Expert
Oliver Onions was a contemporary of J B Priestley both were born in Bradford and both authors of significant talent. Oliver Onions wrote some of the finest Ghost stories of the time and his tales of the supernatural are still … Continue reading