Review: Pride and Prejudice (Sort Of)
A cheeky take on Jane Austen’s classic comedy of manners tickles Richard Lutz’s ribs.
Literacy campaign launches in Birmingham
Local role models launch new campaign to change young people’s life stories.
Book to the Future
Bake and Books to head up University of Birmingham’s literary festival.
Cheers to literature
The Ivy Temple Row’s Literature Festival cocktail menu makes for excellent reading.
Legendary musician to perform in Kings Heath
Music legend Iain Matthews teams up with author Ian Clayton for a words and music show.
Countdown on to Kenilworth Arts Festival
Ten day festival set to attract international and UK artists to historic Midlands town.
Midlands firm moving the Beano for Christmas
Iconic Beano and Dandy albums hitting the shelves thanks to Birmingham company.
Taking the pulp out of fiction
Novel way to recycle unwanted books is coming to town.
Moseley Folk & Arts Festival programme announced
Name change reflects wide range of events for 2019.
Alice in Sutton-land
Alice in Wonderland-inspired family day for Concerts in the Park 2019.
Review: Digbeth – Nigel Parker
Stephen Pennell looks over a photographic record of the coolest neighbourhood in Britain.
Going off-map on the island of little places
Richard Lutz decides it’s time to re-consider 216, 191 and good old number 50.
Janesville blues
Will Mapplebeck is engrossed by a cautionary American tale.
Book Review: ‘Our City’ explores how immigration changed Birmingham
Richard Lutz reviews an investigation into the changing face of our city landscape.
A book for bedtime
Hotel seeks budding young writers for its new bedtime story book.
They Still Wore The Shirt
Wolves football tops wanted as They Wore The Shirt book makes a comeback.
Birmingham Poet Laureate hits the heights
Poetry in the Penthouse launches at the Rotunda.
Adieu Mr Redford, goodbye 2018
Richard Lutz says goodbye to The Sundance Kid and leafs through his own bookshelf in yet another first week of a new year.
No tooth, nothing but the tooth
`Richard Lutz stumbles through another week.
Keeping music live
Talking to Robin 2 owner Mike Hamblett about playing, promoting and writing.
Young people capture Birmingham’s heritage of child migration
Project celebrates diverse nature of the city.
Girl on Top
Dave Woodhall listens to writer Kathy Lette about her new show and lots more.
Christmas – an annual event at PGS
Birmingham firm proves we’re all still (Bash Street) kids at heart.
Announcing Kenilworth Arts Festival 2018
Prize-winning novelists and acclaimed international musicians dominate third festival.
Birmingham philanthropist tells the story
Local social entrepreneur Bhavesh Patel puts his story on the map.
Birmingham Central Library honoured in online exhibition
Matt Lindley writes about recognition for the Central Library.
The world of (wrong) facts
Why Everything You Think You Know About the World Is Probably Wrong, warns writer Will Mapplebeck.
Greene-land and its offshore madhouse
Richard Lutz braves the whirlpool of the past week.
Virtual Man and other tales
Richard Lutz ponders the last seven days of a mis-spent middle age.
Review: Black Sheep – the authorised biography of Nicol Williamson
‘Flawed genius’ best describes the actor whose story has recently been published.