Trilogy is out of this world

Eric Brown, who has launched a new trilogy of books, starting with Necropath

8:24am Friday 27th February 2009

David Barnett catches up with a West Yorkshire writer about to launch a new series of science fiction thrillers

Mandy creates animal magic

Mandy Tyas reads Rollie And Friends to her two cats, Alfie and Hendrix, who appear as kittens in the story

8:30am Thursday 5th February 2009

Sally Clifford talks to a woman whose pets are short story inspirations

Words will come to life at festival

Poet Simon Armitage will be among the guests at Huddersfield Literature Festival in March

8:58am Tuesday 9th December 2008

It’s very handy having the director of Huddersfield Literature Festival living in Bradford.

Enjoy a night of spooky stories

8:45am Wednesday 29th October 2008

With Halloween this Friday, Saltaire Bookshop is presenting a series of spine-tingling tales of the night, starting at 7pm.

Animal lover Jack knows his cattle!

Author Jack Byard

8:44am Thursday 16th October 2008

To Jack Byard, what he had produced was a guide to help visitors to the countryside identify the various types of sheep they came across on their travels.

Be bluff and ready!

Be bluff and ready!

8:39am Friday 10th October 2008

We’ve all been there… there’s a lull in the conversation at the pub and you’re thinking of something to say, but can’t come up with anything better than: “Did you see Bradford City at the weekend?”. Then someone launches into an authoritative rant about a topic about which you know nothing.

Anne has a cat’s tale for all ages

Anne Fine

2:20pm Thursday 11th September 2008

Fans of Anne Fine’s popular Killer Cat series of books for children had better start saving now.

Favourite Joe gets a taste of the Big Apple

Peter J Murray, author of the Mokee Joe series of books,

7:47am Thursday 4th September 2008

hildren’s thriller writer Peter J Murray could be about to find out what it’s like to get the J K Rowling treatment.

Poetry pair release their Graft books

8:29am Thursday 10th July 2008

There are people who write poetry and there are poets. The latter – Dante, Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, W B Yeats – are vastly outnumbered by the former.

Stories are Grist to Michael’s mill

Grist editor Michael Stewart

12:24pm Thursday 29th May 2008

Yorkshire writers Simon Armitage and Joanne Harris have agreed to judge two writing competitions in a forthcoming annual literary magazine.

Joan’s true life tales are better than fiction

Cracking up by Joan Komlosy

8:26am Monday 12th May 2008

In 2005 I went to a cottage just outside Skipton to interview Mike Lamb, who in the late 1950s ran the popular music venue The Students' Club - now under the tarmac of Prince's Way, near The Odeon.

Tribute to a symbol of war's 'ordinary' soldiers

Jack Garbutt: The Bilsdale Bombardier by Susan Laffey

12:33pm Monday 28th April 2008

Documenting the story of her great uncle, an ordinary Yorkshireman who fought and died in the First World War, has been a decade's work for author Susan Laffey.

It shouldn’t happen to a clergyman!

The Rev Dennis Shaw

10:22pm Monday 18th February 2008

When a radically-minded, innovative rector is appointed to a living where the parishioners are set in their traditional ways and suspicious of change, the ride is likely to be a bumpy one for many of those concerned - until they get used to each other and settle down.

Look East for a tasty New Year celebration

Hui Yang , head chef at the Kinglong Restaurant in Shipley

8:03am Thursday 7th February 2008

oday marks the beginning of the Chinese New Year, when people across China make what is known as "New Year visits" to family and friends.

Bradford’s killers who were free to murder again

Yorkshire's Multiple Killers, by Charles Rickell

1:17pm Monday 28th January 2008

Capital Punishment in England officially ended on November 8, 1965, with the passing of the Murder Act.

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