Item category 2: Book

“Something Has Changed” is a book for 6-12 year olds when someone they love is seriously ill and dying. It can be a confusing time for a child when someone they care about is very sick. Written by our St Francis Hospice Social Work Team from their vast experience of working with children and fami...

Bethlehem is a celebration of Palestinian food and culture from one of the area’s most dynamic chefs and a portrait of one of the most storied cities in the world. Franco-Palestinian chef Fadi Kattan celebrates the hidden parts of Bethlehem, his home, conjuring the colors and smells of its market...

Martin Malone & Bryan Angus's Gardenstown offers a vivid evocation of changing seasons in a village, from spring to winter. The book is a sequence of Malone's remarkable poetry, interspersed with Angus's exquisite linocuts, which capture the essence of the people, places and wildlife in north-eas...

Sonnets for my mother as Lear is a sequence of what Martin Malone calls "raggedy" sonnets, about the poet's indomitable mother and also the dementia care system, mixing registers within a dramatic context derived from Shakespeare's King Lear - both funny and moving.