Local author with magic touch for children’s stories

Liz Baddaley (picture by Karen Ross Photography)

11:49am Friday 7th June 2013

Liz Baddaley lives in Ilkley and this is her first published novel for children, but the subject matter is far removed from the Yorkshire Dales.

Yeadon has proved hotbed of cricket talent

One of the many legendary Yorkshire County Cricket Club teams, this one of 1885

1:32pm Tuesday 14th May 2013

Yorkshire County Cricket Club’s 150th anniversary is being marked in various ways, with dinners and memorial services and a good, straightforward history, The Sweetest Rose, by David Warner, but this week my eye was drawn to a very different celebration of the rich vein of cricketing talent mined from the county over the last century and a half.

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.

Just like in the movies!

Edward Evans's book

8:41am Monday 8th September 2008

I know one should not judge books as films, but II PY, by Edward Evans, seems an obvious candidate.

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.

A reluctant prisoner...

7:52am Monday 1st September 2008

Boldness Be My Friend was first published in 1953, one of a number of true stories about the Second World War, which reportedly sold 2.5 million copies.

First-hand stories of ‘The Troubles’

First-hand stories of ‘The Troubles’

8:27am Tuesday 26th August 2008

Between 1969 and 1998 an estimated 300,000 British soldiers did tours of duty in Northern Ireland. More than 1,000 of them didn’t come back alive.

Silver screen scenes

Silver screen scenes

9:30am Monday 11th August 2008

This glossy chronicle of movie-making in Yorkshire complements an earlier work by the late Geoff Mellor: Movie Makers and Pictures Palaces: a Century of Cinema in Yorkshire: 1896-1996.

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.

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