ART historian Marshall Hall first came across the illustrations of Byron Dawson when he was a pupil of the artist. Sadly, all were lost when the artist’s studio was cleared following his death in 1968. The intricately detailed ...
ALTHOUGH he was born in Ulverston and his family spent a few years living in Bishop Auckland, Stan Laurel lived for almost 10 years in North Shields, the home town of the author. It was in this town that the soon-to-be-famous ...
THESE walks are journeys of exploration along Britain’s historic byways. They range from pilgrim routes of medieval times, smugglers’ trails, the processional routes of Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages, to Victorian seafront ...
A COLLECTION of 12 stories from the Tyneside-based winner of the 2009 Mslexia International Short Story Competition. In the tradition of fairy tales, recurrent themes run through the stories full of heroes and villains. The stories ...
AS a shy 16-year-old boy in the navy, Gregory Felton suffers a humiliating experience at the hands of a group of women _ an experience which will scar him for life. Many years later, as an ordained minister, Gregory is cast adrift in ...
THIS first novel by this Newbiggin-based writer is set in the early 1800s and tells the story of Nathaniel Davidson, the 16-year-old son of an aristocratic Northumberland family, who falls out with his father and sets out to make his ...