The literature to which I was exposed in my childhood and youth didn’t extend beyond The Beano, Shoot, Newcastle United match day programmes and Viz. I would have doled out Chinese burns and stolen the crayons of children who...
Read MoreEileen Wharton, a novelist from County Durham, says that you don’t have to be posh to be published. Abused wife Rose Starling is living on benefits with her three children on a sink estate in a small town in the Newcastle...
Read MoreThere’s a point in Byker where, just between the 60s council flats and the Legoland maisonettes, you catch a glimpse of the Newcastle and Gateshead Quayside. Perched high on the banks of the mighty Tyne you can see the sun...
Read MoreWhen you hear the phrase ‘Best of British’ what does it make you think? Foamy pints of English ale on a summer’s afternoon while watching cricket on the village green? Drinking Pimms and eating over-priced strawberries in...
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