Books

Harbottle novelist B.A. Morton on her debut success

Rating: 2

February 20th 2012

A mum-of-three from Harbottle has had international success with her debut book plus advice from the experts on how to get your book published

Val McDermid on becoming the queen of crime and her love affair with Alnmouth

Rating: 2

February 9th 2012

Former tabloid newspaper journalist Val McDermid on becoming the queen of crime and her love affair with Alnmouth. Interview by Paul Mackenzie Photography by John Cocks

The best books to buy this Christmas

Rating: 3

December 2nd 2011

We ask five authors for the best stocking-fillers and spine-chillers to give this Christmas

Book explores County Durham’s rich seam of history and legend

Rating: 3

October 28th 2011

Jo Haywood reports on a Durham author’s attempts to bring the region’s rich seam of history, lore and legend to a wider audience

Stan Laurel roots traced back to North Shields, Tyneside

Rating: 3

September 8th 2011

Jo Haywood is charmed by a new book tracing the North East roots of a comic legend

Beautiful book of Northumberland landscape photography

Rating: 3

August 8th 2011

Jo Haywood wanders blissfully through a new book of landscape photographs taken in Northumberland

New walking guide describes the North East’s wild places

Rating: 2

July 6th 2011

Jo Haywood discovers where the wild things are in the North East with the help of a new walking guide

Is there such a thing as a typical northerner?

Rating: 3

June 20th 2011

Is there such a thing as a typical northerner? Jo Haywood finds out with the help of a new book by Sefton Samuels

A Life in Books - Mari Hannah

Rating: 2

May 10th 2011

Jo Haywood talks to Corbridge author Mari Hannah about her chances of going straight (to the top)

Corbridge crime writer Mari Hannah publishes first novel

Rating: 2

May 5th 2011

Jo Haywood talks to Corbridge author Mari Hannah about her chances of going straight (to the top)

North East murder-mystery books reviewed - The Elephant Tree, Death Of A Radical, The Tantalus Case

Rating: 3

April 18th 2011

Who done it?.... This lot did! Jo Haywood turns her magnifying glass on the work of three North East murder-mystery writers

Criminal injustice in the North East

Rating: 2

March 23rd 2011

Jo Haywood sifts through the evidence presented by an arresting new book about ‘criminal injustice’ in the North East

Photographer Joe Cornish pictures his work in beautiful new book

Rating: 3

January 30th 2011

Distinguished North East-based landscape photographer Joe Cornish finds himself on the other side of the lens, as Jo Haywood discovers

Sunderland-born landscape photographer makes his Mark

Rating: 3

November 18th 2010

Jo Haywood snaps up the latest book by outstanding Sunderland-born landscape photographer Mark Denton

Review: Newcastle’s 50 Greatest Games by David Potter

Rating: 2

November 14th 2010

It’s been well over half a century since the Magpies soared to success to bring English footballing honours to Tyneside and more than 40 years since the boys in black and white stripes brought home the European Inter Cities Fairs Cup.

Review: Hemispheres by Stephen Baker

Rating: 2

November 3rd 2010

Set on the windswept North East coast against the ragged industrial landscape of the Tees estuary, it is the vivid and painful story of a son’s reconnection with his long-absent father.