How do you make ordinary life sound interesting? That’s a question that the author of ‘Walking on the Ceiling’ and ‘White on White’, Ayşegül Savaş, beautifully answers in ‘The Anthropologists’, a novel about married couple Asya and Manu navigating love, f…

If you’re looking for spooky stories on a dark night, then ‘Phantoms at the Phil’ is where you need to be. After a brief hiatus, ‘Phantoms’ is back at the Lit & Phil in Newcastle with three new stories of a supernatural disposition. Putting the willies…

One of Shakespeare’s finest ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is coming to the Forum Theatre in Billingham in early February. You may think that the biggest tragedy of late winter is when you get your credit card/heating bill, but those daggers to the heart have noth…