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Blimey oh Riley. We’ve already had record viewing figures for my British Library talk this morning. As part of their ‘Unfinished Business – the Fight for Women’s Rights’, I decided to do a talk called ‘A Room of One’s Own – I Wish!’ The talk was all about how it is nigh on impossible to […]

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Join me – LIVE (or … not)

If you wander over to my Writer in Residence page, you’ll find out more about my year-long residency with Kirklees Libraries.It’s all still a bit new and scary, but I’d absolutely love as many of you as possible to join me for my first online session this THURS 3 Sep at 11:00 GMT. The session […]

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10 Reasons *Some People* Hate Yorkshire

***NB – this blog has been written with a very large slice of Tongue In Cheek. And Indeed – By a Lassie Of The North…*** Yorkshire Yorkshire Yorkshire. It’s all that we ever hear these days. I think that it’s about time that we had a full and frank commentary in relation to the damned […]

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The Five Minutes of Fame (or shame?)

Had a thoroughly enjoyable experience being interviewed on BBC Radio Leeds this week. Wes Butters – what a lovely chap. Butters by name and butters by … Well. As you can hear – he started by being ever so nice to me, and then tried to grill me about all of the politicians that I’ve […]

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A Bit About Me

In my part of the world being referred to as a ‘funny lass’ is more about being perceived to be a bit of an oddity, a bit unusual. Not about the humour.
Still, there's nowt wrong with having a bit of a laugh. Eh? Read More…

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