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REVIEW: The Crime Writer by Russ Litten (New Grass Books 2025)     ‘A good writer borrows … a great writer steals’ –...

“ [With] prose superior to film in capturing brief, confusing, life-or-death situations. This meticulously researched history moves along...

We Know What We Are – Russ Litten (Obliterati Press, 2018) This debut short story collection from novelist Russ Litten is, to paraphrase...

53º NORTH* – an all-new music and spoken word festival for the North is to be staged in Hull’s historic Zebedee’s Yard between Friday,...

(For Dicky Deegan’s Da) Steam rises – a kettle whistle crescendos and fades – the mammy lifts it from the Yorkist range – the only...

TODAY in the Commons, North Hull Labour MP Diana Johnson quoted The Headscarf Revolutionaries as inspirational women and has called for...

Hessle Road came together once more today. This time they gathered to mark the 44th anniversary of the sinking of The Gaul. Two floral...

Today both sides of the city gathered to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Hull Triple Trawler Disaster – and the loss of the...

Walking towards the Boulevard where it meets Hull’s Hessle Road, I was almost bumped into by a teenage couple, both in track suits and...

OUTSIDE on the river, the Humber Rescue boat crew came alongside in tribute while inside a makeshift ‘tent hall’ Hessle Roaders, with...

TODAY Hessle Road came together to pay tribute to its own – and I was happy to be among them. The ships may have all but gone, but the...

Sunday 14th January 2pm Kardomah94 94 Alfred Gelder Street Hull HU1 2AN Tickets from hullboxoffice.com or kardomah94.com ACCLAIMED...

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. ISSUED ON BEHALF OF THE CROSSING OVER NETWORK. Contact Ray French on: 07375999808 A NEW book of...

Mary, pictured left with the fellow campaigners in 1968 (below), and above with John Prescott at a memorial day for the triple trawler...

A NEW novel described as a twenty-first century fusion of two literary giants was critically acclaimed before it was published. The...

Kingdom by Russ Litten (Wrecking Ball Press, 2015) Paperback. In his third novel, Kingdom, Russ Litten departs not only from the previous...

The Secret Baby Room by DD Johnston (Barbican Press, 2015) Kindle edition As a child I used to try to make a good book last forever. I...

Tomorrow, tomorrow and tomorrow… Saturday is a day of poetry and prose for yours truly. At 1pm on board the old barge Evangeline, I have...

I am delighted to be joining my folk-singing pals, Mick McGarry - below left, and Dave Gawthorpe, below right (of Hillbilly Troupe fame),...

The Headscarf Revolutionaries Wow!! What a read. Let me say that as a 75 year old a good book lasts me almost 2 weeks whilst on...