When you’re ill, do you reach for medication, a hot tea, or your dog? Author of ‘Wild: An Elemental Journey’, argues it should be the latter in ‘How Animals Heal Us’. Jay Griffiths studies a huge number of case studies to explore just how important animal…

The Books on Tyne festival returns this November with a plethora of top authors in attendance. Now in its 14th year, the Books on Tyne festival continues to go from strength to strength, and this year’s programme is a real page-turner. The award-winnin…

For all those who hate football and the bullshit that goes with it, please look away now. I promise normal service will resume next month. The Premier League? It’s ridiculous, isn’t it? From the moment it started in the 1992/93 season it’s been the most o…