Is the Durham Folk Festival a new event to get excited about? Kinda… You should be exited by the Durham Folk Festival, very exited given the line-up, but it’s not entirely a new event. It’s “sort of/kind of” replacing the Hartlepool Folk Festival, whic…

Peter Swanson scored a hit with his previous Christmas tale of murder and mayhem, ‘The Christmas Guest’, and he’s laced his latest literary eggnog with just the right amount of the hard stuff. It concerns Nicholas Child, a struggling mystery writer, who i…

The British summertime has encouraged many outdoors this year, and a whole bunch of us have been spending our Fridays at TopSoil—a rather fabulous queer gardening club in Newcastle. It’s been a hot minute since we gave TopSoil some love, but neverthele…