Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi August’s North West Literary Salon at Lancaster Library offers an evening of free stories, conversation, food and music. The event will features dramatic readings from celebrated authors […]
LitFest 2011 line-up announced, Jon Ronson to headline
Get ready for Litfest11 – the best ten days of the year! The Litfest programme has arrived hot off the press – and a PDF is avaialable now from the […]
Lancaster's Carol Birch on Booker Shortlist
Our heartiest congratulations to popular Lancastrian author Carol Birch, who has had her latest novel, ‘Jamrach’s Menagerie’ shortlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize (see full shortlist here) And the […]
In Review: ‘Jamrach’s Menagerie’ by Carol Birch
Lancastrian novelist Carol Birch’s Jamrach’s Menagerie is a 19th century seaman’s yarn depicting the voyage from youth to maturity of one Jaffy Brown: an otherwise insignificant boy from London’s East […]