The Ilkley Gazette: News from across Ilkley and surrounding areas.

Anne has a cat’s tale for all ages

2:20pm Thursday 11th September 2008

Fans of Anne Fine’s popular Killer Cat series of books for children had better start saving now.

Just like in the movies!

8:41am Monday 8th September 2008

I know one should not judge books as films, but II PY, by Edward Evans, seems an obvious candidate.

Favourite Joe gets a taste of the Big Apple

7:47am Thursday 4th September 2008

hildren’s thriller writer Peter J Murray could be about to find out what it’s like to get the J K Rowling treatment.

First-hand stories of ‘The Troubles’

8:27am Tuesday 26th August 2008

Between 1969 and 1998 an estimated 300,000 British soldiers did tours of duty in Northern Ireland. More than 1,000 of them didn’t come back alive.

Silver screen scenes

9:30am Monday 11th August 2008

This glossy chronicle of movie-making in Yorkshire complements an earlier work by the late Geoff Mellor: Movie Makers and Pictures Palaces: a Century of Cinema in Yorkshire: 1896-1996.

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Stories are Grist to Michael’s mill

12:24pm Thursday 29th May 2008

Yorkshire writers Simon Armitage and Joanne Harris have agreed to judge two writing competitions in a forthcoming annual literary magazine.

Joan’s true life tales are better than fiction

8:26am Monday 12th May 2008

In 2005 I went to a cottage just outside Skipton to interview Mike Lamb, who in the late 1950s ran the popular music venue The Students' Club - now under the tarmac of Prince's Way, near The Odeon.

Tribute to a symbol of war's 'ordinary' soldiers

12:33pm Monday 28th April 2008

Documenting the story of her great uncle, an ordinary Yorkshireman who fought and died in the First World War, has been a decade's work for author Susan Laffey.