Scarborough-born, Sally-Ann Fawcett, has published a book documenting the media coverage of beauty contests. When she was growing up in Scarborough, Sally-Ann fell in love with beauty queens and contests and during the 70s, these were on every TV station and covered in all newspapers. However, nowadays, these contests are barely covered in newspapers or […]
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In 1996, gangsta-rapper Coolio was nominated for an Oscar for the film Dangerous Minds and he won a Grammy for the song Gangsta’s Paradise. But who was the man behind the rapper? Dave Callens was the tour manager of Coolio at the time and has written book telling his story called Putting Socks on the […]
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Ranting Won’t Get You Anywhere
A new author has emerged in the Scarborough area. Lawrence Clarke, 35, was born in Lancashire near Blackburn and moved to Preston University to study Human Resource Management. In 2010, Lawrence moved to the Scarborough area with his current partner. He said: “After I finished my undergraduate course, I continued studying and did a postgraduate […]
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Scarborough Author To Hold Talk
Scarborough author Malcolm Bruce Smith, who writes under the pen name of Malcolm Bruce, will be giving an illustrated talk at Vernon Road library at two thirty on May 14 about the Scarborough bombardment – but with a difference! As Malcolm says, most of the events to commemorate the bombardment last year, quite rightly, concentrated […]
Learning and Development Advisor during the day and writer by night, Julie Heslington is about to release her debut novel; Searching for Steven. The novel is inspired by a particular event in her life in which a clairvoyant predicted that she would meet and marry a man called ‘Steven’. This led Julie on a search […]
In partnership with the Books by the Beach festival, Scarborough Flare are putting on a local literature festival celebrating the work of local writers. The first of the events takes place on Friday April 10 where people are able to bring along their own poetry, prose, acoustic music or anything you like, including magic tricks. […]
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The Quick by Lauren Owen Review
An illicit love affair and blood-sucking aristocratic vampires, what more do you need in one book? Told in five parts, The Quick, by British author Lauren Owen, follows the story of the young and naïve James, who is thrown into a world of London vampires pitted against East London vampires. Set in Victorian England, Owen […]
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