Friends of Marsden Library

FULLY BOOKED Florence Lockwood (1861 - 1937): the extraordinary life of a Colne Valley Suffragist
2025-03-06 19:30 - 20:30 (Europe/London) | Marsden Library, Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden, West Yorkshire, HD7 6BW, United Kingdom
WOW: this event is now fully booked!
Celebrate International Women’s Day and World Book Night all in one go at Marsden Library!
Date: Thursday 6th March
Doors Open: 7pm
Event: 7.30pm – 8.30pm
Free: please reserve your seat in advance by leaving your name at Marsden Library or online here.
Suffrage Banner by Florence E Lockwood, 1911, copyright Kirklees Museums & Galleries
Florence Lockwood was an artist, suffragist and pacifist. Her memoir paints a vivid picture of the people, politics, communities, and industry of the Colne Valley in the early 20th C, and is the only known autobiography of a Yorkshire suffragist. Florence remained a practicing artist throughout her life and may be best known – in the Huddersfield area at least – for this stunning suffrage banner, ‘Votes for Women, Huddersfield and District’.
We’re delighted to welcome Janette Martin and Rebecca Gill, editors of this new edition of Florence’s memoir, ‘An Ordinary Life’, published by Huddersfield History Society in November 2024, to discuss Florence’s life and work, and to celebrate her achievements this International Women’s Day.

Friends of Marsden Library AGM
2024-11-18 18:45 - 19:45 | Marsden Library, Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden, West Yorkshire, HD7 6BW, United Kingdom
The Annual General Meeting of the Friends of Marsden Library will be held in the Library at 6.45 pm on Monday 18 November 2024.
Agenda

Apologies for absence
Minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on 15th January 2024
Matters arising
Trustees’ report
Statement of accounts
Appointment of trustees
Any other business

Further Details

Made in Manchester: Talk by Brian Groom (bestselling author of 'Northerners: a History'
2024-11-10 14:00 - 15:00 | Marsden Mechanics, HD7 6BW
Made in Manchester: The City that Shaped the Modern World
The astonishing history of how the people of Manchester and its surrounding region led the emergence of the industrial and commercial world as we know it, from the Romans to today, will be outlined in an illustrated talk by Brian Groom, author of the bestselling Northerners: A History. Based on his latest book, Made in Manchester, Brian will talk about individuals, famous or not, who built the region and its culture and ask what part it can play in Britain’s – and the world’s – future.
Brian Groom is a journalist, formerly assistant editor and political editor of the Financial Times. He also launched and later edited Scotland on Sunday, the Scotsman’s Sunday paper. Originally from Stretford, Greater Manchester, he now lives in Saddleworth.
Buy tickets online or reserve at Marsden Library and pay on the night.

Volunteer Information Afternoon
2024-10-09 15:00 - 17:00 | Marsden Library, Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden, West Yorkshire, HD7 6BW, United Kingdom

Calendar Competition Winners Exhibition
2024-09-27 - 2024-11-30 | Marsden Mechanics, HD7 6BW
The winning entries in this year’s Marsden Calendar Competition are on view in the foyer of the Mechanics from today.
Congratulations to all the winners, and thank-you to everyone who entered and made the calendar so brilliant.

Annual General Meeting of Friends of Marsden Library
2024-01-15 18:45 - 19:00 | Marsden Library, Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden, West Yorkshire, HD7 6BW, United Kingdom
The Annual General Meeting of the Friends of Marsden Library will be held in the Library at 6.45pm on Monday 15 th January 2024

Agenda
1. Apologies for absence
2. Minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on 12 th December 2021
3. Matters arising
4. Trustees’ report
5. Statement of accounts
6. Appointment of trustees
7. Any other business
Copies of the trustee’s report and the statement of accounts are available online and at the library. (To Follow)
The constitution requires that at the AGM one third of the charity trustees shall retire from office, but that they shall be eligible for reappointment. This is taken to be the three longest serving trustees and they are Janette Martin, Rachael Payne and Gail Ward. All three have confirmed that they wish to put themselves forward for re-appointment.
The constitution provides for the appointment of twelve trustees and we currently have three
vacancies. Nominations are invited for appointment to these vacancies.

Yorkshire Day: Rugby and the Making of Yorkshire, with Tony Collins
2023-08-04 19:30 | Marsden Mechanics, Upstairs, Peel Street, Marsden, HD76BW
Part of Marsden’s Yorkshire Day Celebrations

Only a stone’s throw from the home of Rugby League, we’re delighted to welcome Tony Collins to our Yorkshire Day Celebrations to explain how Yorkshire would be a shadow of itself without the assistance of the funny-shaped ‘ball’.
Tony is a historian and prize-winning author who has been consultant to numerous TV and radio programmes, including BBC Radio 4’s thirty-part 2012 series Sport and the British with Clare Balding, the History Channel’s Alfie Allen’s Football: A Brief History, BBC Wales’ The Rugby Codebreakers, and the 2019 New Zealand TV series The Story of Rugby.
Recent Titles

Check out his Rugby Reloaded podcast on your platform of choice:

The event will include Q&A and Book Signing, and a bar will be available.

Robin Ince: Bibliomaniac
2023-05-18 19:30 - 21:30 | West Yorkshire
Why play to 12,000 people when you can play to 12? (or, ideally, 40: maximum capacity in Marsden Library!)
We’re delighted to have Robin back again this year to talk about the book that came out of his 2021 tour, Bibliomaniac.
Packed with witty anecdotes and tall tales, Bibliomaniac takes the reader on a journey across Britain as Robin explores his lifelong love of bookshops and books (and Libraries, natch) – and also tries to find out just why he can never have enough of them. It is the story of an addiction and a romance, and also of an occasional points failure just outside Oxenholme.
Our friends at Read in Holmfirth will be along to sell books – and they even feature in Biblbiomaniac having hosted Robin in Holmfirth – and Robin will be happy to sign.
This event will take place in our small-but-beautiful, Library – meaning tickets are strictly limited! On Sale on Wednesday 5th April from Marsden Mechanics – make a note in your diary!

Marsden Calendar Competition 2023 13 May - 30 June
2023-05-13 - 2023-06-30 | West Yorkshire
Marsden Calendar Competition Awaits Your Entries!

Open to all
Pictures that capture the spirit of Marsden and the Colne Valley
Minimum image size 1MB
Horizontal orientation

Enter Online until 30 June

NEW DATE 20 April Behind-the-Scenes of 'Paine: A Fantastical Visual Biography' with Graphic Novelist 'Polyp'
2023-04-20 19:30 - 21:00 | Marsden Library, Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden, West Yorkshire, HD7 6BW, United Kingdom

In Conversation with Milly Johnson (HLF 2023)
2023-04-02 14:30 - 15:30 | Marsden Mechanics, Upstairs, Peel Street, Marsden, HD76BW
Friends of Marsden Library has partnered once again with Huddersfield Literature Festival to bring HLF to the Colne Valley.
This year, we are offering you an unmissable event with one of our best-loved Yorkshire writers, Milly Johnson – a bestselling novelist who is much in demand as an after-dinner speaker and professional joke writer.
Milly’s latest novel, Together, Again, see sisters Jolene, Marsha and Annis convening at the family home following the death of their mother. Born seven years apart, the women are more strangers than sisters. When the sisters discover their mother has left everything in her will to Annis, the renegade daughter who left home at 16 never to return until now, it undermines everything they thought they knew. Together, Again is a story about sister helping sister to heal from childhood scars and finding in each other support, forgiveness, courage and love.
“This masterpiece honestly describes the strength and acceptance required to be a family. 5 STARS” Adele Parks, Book of the Month, Platinum magazine.
Milly Johnson is an international novelist, poet, after-dinner speaker, professional joke writer, scriptwriter, columnist, cruise correspondent, short-story writer and winner of C4’s Come Dine With Me.
She is the author of 20 bestselling novels, selling over three million copies globally, plus a poetry collection and five novellas. In 2020, the Romantic Novelist Association awarded her its Outstanding Achievement Award.
Milly is from Barnsley, where she has lived all her life – apart from four years at University in Exeter studying Drama and Education, and 13 years in Haworth in West Yorkshire.
Early Bird Ticket Price until 28th February – £5 (£3 concessions)
Full Ticket Price from 1 March – £7 (£5 concessions)
Book with Huddersfield Literature Festival

FoML Annual General Meeting
2022-12-12 18:45 - 19:15 | Marsden Library, Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden, West Yorkshire, HD7 6BW, United Kingdom

An Evening with Graphic Novelist Jamie Rhodes
2022-11-24 19:30 - 21:00 | Marsden Library, Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden, West Yorkshire, HD7 6BW, United Kingdom
Join us for an evening with graphic novelist Jamie Rhodes. Jamie will read an extract from his graphic novel, “A Castle in England” and tell us about the project that inspired it, in which he spent 4 months living in a National Trust castle creating stories inspired by the objects and documents in its archive, plunging us into its rich and often dark history.
About Jamie
Jamie Rhodes is a writer and academic working in comics, books, TTRPG, and film. His first book was published in 2014 after he worked with the British Library to write a collection of stories inspired by unusual documents in the library archives. The collection, Dead Men’s Teeth, launched with a series of dramatic readings at the British Library‘s Brontë Room.
A Castle in England is his first graphic novel, the result of a collaboration with the National Trust as Scotney Castle’s Writer-in-Residence, writing a graphic novel inspired by the castle’s archive collection. The book was published by Nobrow Press in 2017 and nominated for a prestigious Eisner Award at San Diego Comic Con 2018.
After moving back to West Yorkshire, Jamie wrote and co-directed an award-winning short film, Amputee (2020). The film made the official selection of 22 film festivals worldwide and was nominated for Best Short Film at Cannes Shorts. In 2021, Jamie started his PhD in Philosophy & Creative Writing. He is currently writing his thesis, Alternate Realities: the Phenomenological Experience of Story Immersion.
Book Online, or leave your name at Marsden Library.
FREE Event, donations welcome to support Friends of Marsden Library.

An Evening with Dave Rigby: author of the Harry Vos investigator series
2022-10-13 19:30 - 21:00 | Marsden Library, Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden, West Yorkshire, HD7 6BW, United Kingdom
Join us for an evening with local crime fiction author, Dave Rigby, for the latest from his Harry Vos series, plus an introduction to his new creation, DI ‘Mac’ Larsen.
Dave will talk about his two new books, ‘End of the Line’ and ‘Mac’.

‘End of the Line’ is the third book in the Harry Vos, Belgian private investigator series and is set mainly in the German-speaking area in the east of the country. Harry has a habit of getting involved in cases that are far from run-off-the-mill and he finds himself caught up in an investigation involving smuggled artworks and artefacts.
In contrast, Detective Inspector Larsen – known as Mac – is part of the Peripatetic Investigation Team based in Edinburgh. When a body is found on a spoil heap, south of the city, Mac’s investigation takes him on a trail which leads into a complex and dangerous world of laser-armed drone development.
Dave will talk about both books, their contrasting settings and what makes a good investigator.
FREE (donations invited in support of Friends of Marsden Library). Booking requested.
Book Online, or at Marsden Library.
Doors open at 7, event starts at 7.30. Book signings. Bottle Bar.

2023 Calendar On Sale Now
2022-09-19 - 2022-12-31 | West Yorkshire
Give the gift of Marsden this Christmas! The Friends of Marsden Library’s Marsden 2023 Calendar is Now On Sale. Available from outlets around Marsden and Slawit or online from Marsden Mechanics. Online orders can be sent to an address of your choice, p&p is £1.65 per calendar (UK – International prices can be advised).
Buy Online

Are you sending our calendar to far flung places? Let us know! Tweet us @MarsdenLibrary, or drop us a line: info@friendsofmarsdenlibrary.org.uk.

Northerners, a A History - from the Ice Age to the Present Day, with Author, Brian Groom
2022-09-01 19:30 - 21:00 | Marsden Mechanics, HD7 6BW
180 million years of history in just one evening – how Northern England’s people have shaped Britain and the world!
Join Brian Groom, author of the bestelling ‘Northerners: A History, from the Ice Age to the Present Day’, who will read passages covering 180 million years of history. He will explain how northern England’s people have shaped Britain and the world in unexpected ways. He will also show how the past echoes down the centuries and explore what northernness means today and the crucial role the north can play in Britain’s future.
Brian Groom is a journalist, formerly assistant editor and political editor of the Financial Times. He also launched and later edited Scotland on Sunday, the Scotsman’s Sunday paper. Originally from Stretford, Greater Manchester, he now lives in Saddleworth.
Thursday, 1 September, Marsden Mechanics
Doors 7.00pm
Start 7.30pm
FREE – Donations Welcome. Booking requested: Book Online, or in Marsden Library

Anita Sethi, 'I Belong Here: a Journey Through the Backbone of England'
2022-08-07 15:00 - 16:00 | Marsden Mechanics, HD7 6BW
Doors Open at 2.30, Event Starts at 3.00
Tickets £7/£5
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Marsden Yorkshire Day/Friends of Marsden Library and Huddersfield Literature Festival presents an unmissable talk by a powerful and refreshing new voice in nature writing.
After a race-hate crime, which left her with panic attacks and anxiety, Anita Sethi longed for wide-open spaces. In an act of resistance and to reclaim her right to belong, she embarked on a journey across the Pennines.
I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain is a beautifully written and truly inspiring account of her journey of reclamation through the natural landscapes of the north, exploring identity, nature, place and belonging.

Yorkshire Day - "Different Class" - the Untold Story of English Cricket
2022-08-05 19:30 - 21:00 | Marsden Mechanics, HD7 6BW
Join historian of English Cricket, Duncan Stone, for a fascinating discussion of the social and cultural machinations of sport, the concept and application of amateurism and who, exactly, gets to define the form, function and meaning of sport. This is history from the bottom up – just the thing for Yorkshire Day.
FREE Book Online, or leave your name at Marsden Library.

2022 Marsden Calendar Competition
2022-05-15 - 2022-06-30 | West Yorkshire
Yes, it’s live and waiting for your fantastic images.
And while we’re here, a helpful tip: if you are using an image you’re previously uploaded to Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, or any social media probably, please send us the original. The apps compress your picture so it takes up less space. That means its quality is reduced and we need high quality images for printing if you win :-).
Have Fun!
Enter Here Now

Northern Writers Reading with Amanda Huggins and Sarah Linley
2022-05-11 19:30 - 21:00 | Marsden Library, Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden, West Yorkshire, HD7 6BW, United Kingdom
Join Marsden regulars Amanda Huggins and Sarah Linley as they read extracts from their latest books, live in Marsden Library.
Amanda Huggins is the author of the novellas All Our Squandered Beauty and Crossing the Lines, as well as five collections of short stories and poetry. She has won numerous awards, including two Saboteur Awards for poetry and fiction, the Colm Toibin International Short Story Award 2020 and the H E Bates Short Story Prize 2021. She was also a runner-up in the Costa Short Story Award 2018 and the Fish Short Story Prize 2021, and has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, The Alpine Fellowship Award and many others. Amanda lives in Yorkshire and works in publishing.
Crossing the Lines:
When Mollie’s mama falls for Sherman Rook, they leave New Jersey behind and move a thousand miles west to his isolated farmstead. Mollie befriends a stray dog, but Rook’s cruelty makes her realise we must sometimes leave behind those we love in order to save ourselves. With only $20 to her name, she sets out from the farm to make her way back home across five state lines.

“Crossing the Lines is a beautifully constructed novella, rich in empathy and atmosphere, and very moving. I look forward to reading more from Amanda Huggins.” Alison Moore, Booker-shortlisted author of The Retreat

Sarah Linley is a crime writer based in Keighley, West Yorkshire.
Her debut novel, The Beach, was published by One More Chapter, the digital imprint of HarperCollins in February 2020.
The Wedding Murders was published by the same imprint in February 2022.
www.sarahlinleyauthor.com
The Wedding Murders
You are invited to the wedding of the season… you might not live to tell the tale.
It’s the stuff of fairy tales. A celebrity wedding in a grand manor house in the beautiful English countryside. But then one guest goes missing. And another almost dies.
Someone at this wedding will do anything to stop their dark secrets from being exposed.

“This gripping murder mystery will keep you riveted from start to end. Fans of Lucy Foley and Agatha Christie will love it” Sophie Hannah, bestselling author of Haven’t They Grown

Doors: 7.15 pm
Event: 7.30 pm
Light refreshments
Free event, booking required. Book online, or Sign Up in Marsden Library.

Northern Writers Reading Poetry Launch and Open Mic with Tim E Taylor
2022-04-28 19:30 - 21:00 | Marsden Library, Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden, West Yorkshire, HD7 6BW, United Kingdom
Join Tim Taylor for the launch of his second poetry collection, LifeTimes, published by Maytree Press. There will also be a short open mic.
Tim Taylor writes fiction and poetry. He has published two novels, Zeus of Ithome and Revolution Day, with Crooked Cat, and a poetry collection, Sea Without a Shore, with Maytree Press; a second, LifeTimes, will be published in March 2022. His poems and stories have won, or been shortlisted in, a number of competitions and appeared in various magazines (e.g. Acumen, Orbis, Pennine Platform) and anthologies. Tim lives in Meltham, West Yorkshire, teaches Ethics at Leeds University, and enjoys playing the guitar and walking up hills (not usually at the same time).
28th April
Marsden Library
Doors 7pm
Event Starts 7.30
Free event, booking required, or sign up at Marsden Library

Author Talk: Rob Vincent, 'Colne Valley, A History of a Pennine Landscape'
2022-03-10 19:30 - 21:00 | Marsden Mechanics, HD7 6BW
Join Rob Vincent in the historic Marsden Mechanics Hall for a talk based on his book ‘Colne Valley: A History of a Pennine Landscape’.
This book is a tribute to the visual strengths of the Colne Valley’s landscape and a narrative of its development. It is inspired by the author’s experience of living for over 30 years in a house whose built form reflects the Valley’s centuries-long dual economy of domestic cloth making and small-scale farming, and whose stones were quarried from the hillside where it stands. From affection for his family home at Harts Hole grew a wider understanding, and a deeper appreciation, of the landscape as a whole. The book shares both the enthusiasm and the learning that developed during that journey.

Thursday 10th March
Marsden Mechanics
Doors Open 7pm
Event Starts 7.30 pm
Licensed Bar

This is a free event, but you do need to book a ticket. If you would like to make a donation to support our work that would be greatly appreciated, there is an option when reserving your ticket.

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Volunteer Opportunities with Marsden Library
2022-03-09 13:30 - 15:30 | Marsden Library, Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden, West Yorkshire, HD7 6BW, United Kingdom

Friends of Marsden Library AGM
2021-12-13 18:45 - 19:30 | Marsden Library, Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden, West Yorkshire, HD7 6BW, United Kingdom
Agenda and Papers

SOLD OUT NEW DATE: Amanda Owen: the Yorkshire Shepherdess (HLF 2020)
2021-12-12 | Marsden Mechanics, HD7 6BW
HLF has announced that the Amanda Owen event will go ahead on the afternoon of 12 December in Marsden Mechanics, 3pm – 4pm.
All existing tickets remain valid. If you would prefer a refund, please send your name and details of your tickets to info@huddlitfest.org.uk
This event is sold out and HLF is not currently expecting to put further tickets on sale.
From teenage Goth in Huddersfield to rural sheep farmer…
Star of the C5 series, Our Yorkshire Farm, Amanda Owen grew up in Huddersfield but was inspired by the James Herriot books to find work as a shepherdess, cow milker and alpaca shearer. Today, she runs a 2,000-acre sheep farm at Ravenseat in the Yorkshire Dales, along with her husband Clive and nine children.
A Sunday Times bestselling author, Amanda has entertained readers with her trademark Yorkshire grit and humour in The Yorkshire Shepherdess and A Year in the Life of the Yorkshire Shepherdess. Her latest book, Adventures of the Yorkshire Shepherdess, is an uplifting and inspiring update on life on the farm, from facing the brutal winter of 2018 to renovating an old farmhouse as a new family home.
Voted ‘Yorkshirewoman of the Year’ by The Dalesman magazine, Amanda has also appeared on ITV’s Countrywise and The Dales, and in Ben Fogle’s New Lives in the Wild.
Amanda will be interviewed by BBC Radio York presenter Jeremy Buxton at this fun and entertaining event for Mothers’ Day.
No age restrictions (Under 16s should be accompanied by an adult).

Climate Voices
2021-11-30 18:30 | Marsden Library, Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden, West Yorkshire, HD7 6BW, United Kingdom
Join a network of small groups across Kirklees discussing ideas around climate change and influence decision-makers locally and globally.

Our planet is heating up, reaching dangerous levels.
Polluted air, water and land impacts on every living thing.
Political and business leaders are talking about climate change and campaigners are working hard to influence decisions.
How can you help shape decisions and action around climate change?

Diverse groups from across Kirklees will meet at the same time in different places to talk through issues and ideas.
Come and be part of a group looking at how the Colne Valley can reduce its environmental impact.
The groups taking part across Kirklees will link into one big Zoom meeting for a few minutes during the event, so each group can hear from others.
All the notes and videos from the events will be presented to the Global Assembly and the Kirklees Climate Commission, so small groups voices become part of big decisions.
These events are part of the Global Assembly (www.globalassembly.org) providing an opportunity for communities all over the world to help make fair and effective action on climate change a reality – in the Kirklees area and globally.
More information from hello@climatevoices.org.uk
Climate Voices is a small group of local people working in partnership with:
Kirklees Council, Third Sector Leaders Kirklees, Global Assembly, Zero Carbon Yorkshire and Kirklees Climate Commission
Register free

An Evening with Fettle Animation
2021-11-04 19:30 - 21:30 | Marsden Mechanics, HD7 6BW
Screening of work by Marsden’s own multi-award-winning animation company
Fettle is a multi-award-winning animation production company, just coming in to its tenth year.
Their work includes children’s television, music videos, charity and business promotions, and animations about social issues.
They’ve been twice BAFTA nominated, won 6 Royal Television Society Awards, a Sandford St Martin’s Children’s Award and a prestigious Japan Prize for educational media. Their work has been shown on the BBC, ITV, by international broadcasters, major film and animation festivals and screened at the United Nations in New York. Their books have also won awards around the world.
Join us for a screening of a selection of our award-winning animations and find out more about how they were made.
Signed copies of their graphic novel, Survivors of the Holocaust will also be available to buy on the night.
All welcome (including children aged 8 upwards if accompanied by an adult)
Licensed bottle bar.

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Marsden Calendar On Sale Now
2021-09-24 - 2021-12-31 | West Yorkshire
The calendar is also available online, +£.50 for delivery.

Marsden Calendar - Exhibition of Winning Photographs
2021-09-24 - 2021-10-20 | West Yorkshire
Winning Photographs from the 2021 Marsden Calendar competition are on display in the Foyer of the Mechanics.
When? During Building Opening Times
FREE
Check out the great talent on display, and why not pick up your copy of the Calendar from the Library whilst you’re there. (Here’s when the Library is open as well).
Also available from lots of Marsden and Slawit stockists.
Essential for every busy family, and a great Christmas present.

Amanda Huggins and Sarah Linley - A Yorkshire Day Event in Marsden Library
2021-07-30 19:30 - 21:30 | Marsden Library, Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden, West Yorkshire, HD7 6BW, United Kingdom
Celebrate Yorkshire Day with the return of FoML’s Northern Writers Reading events in Marsden Library!
Amanda Huggins and Sarah Linley
Friday 30th July, 7.00 for a 7.30 start.
Free but get there early to secure your seat, or reserve a seat here
Amanda Huggins Amanda Huggins is the author of All Our Squandered Beauty, which won the 2021 Saboteur Award for Best Novella, and four collections of short stories and poetry.
Her most recent short story collection, Scratched Enamel Heart, was also shortlisted for a Saboteur Award this year, and her debut poetry collection, The Collective Nouns for Birds, won a Saboteur Award in 2020.
Sarah Linley lives in West Yorkshire and works as a Communications Manager for a housing charity in Bradford.
She spent two years backpacking around South-East Asia with her husband. Their travels inspired her debut novel, The Beach. Her second novel, The Wedding Guest, will be published by HarperCollins in April 2022.
Amanda and Sarah will read from their work, discuss the similarities and differences in their approaches, and take questions from the audience.
Read more about Amanda and Sarah, and find links where you can buy their books, on our Northern Writers Reading page.
