Books
Did Stonyhurst College inspire Arthur Conan Doyle to write Sherlock Holmes?
March 8th 2012
The world’s most famous detective owes much to the historic school in the Ribble Valley, as Paul Mackenzie reports Photography by Kirsty Thompson
Carol Birch - the Lancaster author shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
December 5th 2011
A Lancaster author’s life was turned upside down when she was shortlisted for our biggest literary prize. Sue Riley reports Main photography by Darren Andrews
The Burnley author who got a book deal after watching his beloved Clarets defeated
September 21st 2011
Stewart Binns watched his beloved Burnley get hammered but it led him to a new career as a best-selling author. Amanda Griffiths reports
The motorcycles diaries of a Blackburn man following Che Guevara's tyre tracks
August 3rd 2011
Stephen Holmes from Blackburn explains why he and a friend followed in the tyre-tracks of Che Guevara on a 5,000-mile trip through South America and wrote their own motorcycle diary
Lancashire Life reader book review - A Dark Anatomy
May 20th 2011
Lancashire Life reader Paula Hardman reviews A Dark Anatomy by Robin Blake
A Dark Anatomy: Robin Blake's detective novel of body-snatchers and scoundrels in 1740s Preston
April 4th 2011
Lancashire author Robin Blake cut his teeth with television’s Lynda La Plante. Now he has invented his own sleuth. He talks to Roger Borrell Photography by John Cocks
Lancaster Literature Festival - Litfest Preview
October 14th 2010
Penny Darby reveals the big names heading for Lancashire’s top literary festival
Lancashire Life reader book review - The de Lacy Inheritance
August 25th 2010
Lancashire Life reader Catherine Craw reviews Elizabeth Ashworh's 'The de Lacy Inheritance'
Clitheroe Castle the setting for romantic novel, The de Lacy Inheritance
July 25th 2010
A Lancashire author's first novel tells a story of intrigue and passion based in Clitheroe. Roger Borrell met her
Lancashire’s favourite children’s books
April 17th 2010
The story of 70 years of iconic children’s books has been told by an author from Kendal
Last Orders - The Essential Guide to Your Letter of Wishes
April 8th 2010
Last Orders - The Essential Guide to Your Letter of Wishes. Last Orders is a book intended to assist anyone and everyone. It deals with that perennial taboo, the subject of death...
Ribble, a local and natural history
December 10th 2009
Lancashire naturalist Malcolm Greenhalgh introduces his newly-published classic guide to one of this county’s defining features – the mighty River Ribble
Taffy Thomas, the UK’s first storytelling laureate
November 11th 2009
Grasmere’s Taffy Thomas has been named the UK’s first storytelling laureate
Richmal Crompton creator of Just William
August 19th 2009
Richmal Crompton's most famous creation - Just William - is to be brought back to life, 40 years after the Bury-born author's deathWords by Amanda Hodges
Book yourself some fun - Lancashire Reads
August 19th 2008
Lancashire Life has teamed up with the county's library service to launch Lancashire Reads Photographs by John Cocks
Southport Artist Faye Whittaker
November 1st 2007
AS a youngster, Faye Whittaker was inspired to paint by Southport's beautiful Lord Street. And this view, of the famous boulevard in 1907, set Faye on a career path which has turned her into an artist with an international reputation.
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