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We are delighted to finally share the list of titles for Read Regional
2015, which runs from March to June in libraries and book groups and at
literary festivals in the North East and Yorkshire.
Read Regional aims to connect writers in the North of England with
their readers, by putting their books into libraries and hosting
intimate, book-group sized events where readers can meet the author and
discuss their work. We partner with 19 local authorities in the North
East and Yorkshire to reach readers across the region.
For event listings, see www.readregional.com.
We hope you will join us!
Click on the links to go to the website and read each of the authors
introducing their work.
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Stephanie
Butland
Stephanie Butland is a professional trainer specialising in creativity
and thinking skills. A prominent blogger, she has written two books about
her life with cancer. Letters
to My Husband (Transworld) is Stephanie’s first novel,
about marriage, loss and learning that life moves on whether you want it
to or not. For fans of Liane Moriarty and Jojo Moyes. Stephanie lives in
Northumberland.
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Alan
Gibbons
Alan Gibbons is a full-time writer and a visiting speaker and lecturer
at schools, colleges and literary events nationwide. He lives in
Liverpool and travels globally. Alan is well-known for his high profile
‘Campaign for the Book’ and school visits. Hate (Indigo) is a young adult
thriller, based on the true story of Sophie Lancaster, who was murdered
in 2007 for the way she dressed.
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Tim
Leach
What does it mean to be happy? Tim Leach’s debut novel is inspired by
the writing of Herodotus and follows the life and eventual downfall of
Croesus, the king of Lydia who believes his unimaginable wealth should
make him the happiest man alive. The
Last King of Lydia (Atlantic Books) is a richly imagined
journey into an ancient world, where many of the concerns remain
pertinent today. Tim lives in Sheffield.
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Lauren
Owen
Lauren Owen grew up in the grounds of an old country house in
Yorkshire. She is a graduate of St Hilda’s, Oxford, holds an MA in
Victorian Literature, is completing a PhD on Gothic writing and fan
culture at Durham University, and is the recipient of the Curtis Brown
Prize for best writer on the UEA creative-writing programme. A feast of
supernatural, gothic horror, The
Quick (Vintage) is her first novel. Lauren lives in Durham
and York.
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Bryan
and Mary Talbot
Sally Heathcote:
Suffragette (Jonathan Cape) is the new graphic novel from the
Costa Award-winning authors of Dotter
of Her Father’s Eyes, Bryan and Mary Talbot. Telling the
inside story of the campaign for votes for women, the book follows the
fortunes of a maid-of-all-work swept up in the feminist militancy of
Edwardian Britain. Bryan Talbot is a well-known graphic novelist and
author of the Grandville
series. Mary Talbot is an internationally acclaimed scholar of language,
gender and power. The Talbots live in Sunderland.
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Debbie
Taylor
Debbie Taylor is the founder and editorial director of Mslexia. Her
previous novels, including The
Fourth Queen and Hungry
Ghosts, have been critically acclaimed. Her evocative new
novel, Herring
Girl (OneWorld Publications), moves back and forth
between the 19th century and the present, where an unsolved murder from
the past is troubling a young boy. Debbie lives in North Tyneside.
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Robert
Williams
Robert Williams grew up in Clitheroe, Lancashire and currently lives
in Manchester. His first novel, Luke
and Jon, won a Betty Trask Award, and was translated into six
languages. His second novel, How
the Trouble Started, was shortlisted for the Portico Prize
for Fiction. He has worked in a secondary school library, as a
bookseller, and has written and released music under the name The Library
Trust. Into the Trees
(Faber and Faber) is a haunting, lyrical novel set in the Bleasdale
forest, to which its characters are unexpectedly drawn.
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Ellen
Phethean
Ellen Phethean is a sound artist, poet, playwright and editor and,
with Julia Darling, the founder of Diamond Twig Press. She spent 20004 as
writer in residence at Seven Stories, where she wrote Wall, a teen novel
in poems. Her poetry has been widely broadcast and anthologised and her
first full poetry collection, Breath,
was shortlisted for the London New Poetry Award in 2010. Portrait of the Quince as an
Older Woman (Red Squirrel Press) is her latest collection.
Ellen lives in Newcastle upon Tyne.
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Helen
Tookey
Helen Tookey has worked in academic publishing, as a university
teacher in creative writing at Edge Hill University and as a freelance
editor. Helen also worked for The Reader literature outreach organisation
(2004-2007), where she ran a poetry reading group in a hospital and other
community reading groups. Her short collection, Telling the Fractures,
a collaboration with photographer Alan Ward, was published by Axis
Projects in 2008. Her verse was anthologised in New Poetries V (Carcanet,
2011). Missel-Child
(Carcanet) is her first full poetry collection. Helen lives in Liverpool.
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John
Wedgwood Clarke
John Wedgwood Clarke has worked as an actor, a landscape painter, and
university lecturer. After studying literature, he set up and directed
the Beverley Literature and Bridlington Poetry Festivals, before leaving
to become a Leverhulme Artist in Residence at the University of Hull in
2012. He is currently UK & Ireland editor for Arc Publications, and
regularly collaborates with visual artists and curators on public-art
projects and exhibitions. Ghost
Pot (Valley Press) is John’s first full-length collection.
John lives in Scarborough.
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