Leeds Book Club

Join @BookElfLeeds and I for a chat about what we've been reading this month. From slightly smutty novels to book club low scores to holocaust denial...we like to think we've been keeping it varied... Note - there might just have been a glass of wine involved in this production...

@BookElfLeeds is back with a new reading challenge! Join us as we converse Christmas spirit and where to find it - books, movies, hallmark - we meander happily through all the seasonal tropes!

Jess (@BookElfLeeds) provides us with an update of her Modern Mrs Darcy Reading Challenge of 2016. With 6 books read; she's at the halfway mark already! From historical fiction to librarian-readers-recommendations books (oooh, secret knowledge!) to coming-of-age to raunchy reading for teens - join us for a fascinating voyage of literary wonder!!

After the recent showing of Never Let Me Go (part of the Human Nature season) by @MinicineYorks, we held an after film discussion comparing the book to the film. The sound is a tiny bit hollow but the chat was ace!

LBC and @BookElfLeeds join forces to discuss the Modern Mrs Darcy reading challenge. From book blurbs to stickers to authors to recommendations and must reads - it's our bookiest booky chat in ages!

LBC is joined by the fabulously funny Minicine team - Woody and Abi - for a chat about all things film, short film, social cinema and CAKE! We discuss the origins of Minicine, its exciting plans for 2016 and cat videos! Probably the most enthusiastic podcast you'll hear this year!

Tom (@ArtsMindsLeeds) takes Niamh (@LeedsBookClub) around one of the art exhibitions!

Tom (@ArtsMindsLeeds) and I meet up to discuss comics - the Movement, Look Straight Ahead, 2 Kill and Psychiatric Tales; books - The Girl on the Train; Tom's Recommendation - In and Out of the Kitchen and exciting events coming up soon!

Tom (@ArtsMindsLeeds) and I say hi and introduce Culturally Minded - the new project from Sharing Stories!

This is *NOT* a LeedsBookClub podcast! When Shona and Niamh get together, the craic is always mighty. So this is our first podcast together! We want to discuss all manner of Geeky topics from our own wonderful and wild perspective! If you like the sound of us/it - let us know by dropping us a tweet @EllieJayden and @Drneevil!

ADULT! Horror! A short story by Owen Elgie, recorded as an audio tale by Niamh Foley (LBC).

LBC is joined by Tom from @ArtsMindsLeeds - one of the genius minds behind the Sharing Stories campaign. We discuss fiction as a learning tool for mental health awareness and our upcoming book club chatting about Notes from an Exhibition by Patrick Gale

LBC is joined by Ross Young - the author of the Gloomwood Series. We discuss the first - Dead Heads - before exploring his writing style and the world of self publishing!

To hoards of SF fans, Claudia will always be General Susan Ivanova from Babylon 5 - one of the greatest SF characters in one of the greatest SF TV series EVER. However - as you'll hear during our chat - she's a true renaissance woman, with a diverse range of activities and creative outlets. She writes. She sings. She enjoys food, travel and books. She's even written a few herself! All that on top of portraying countless memorable characters across tv and film. AND single handedly destroyed a small fleet. Intimidating? Just a touch.

Mark Catley - acclaimed writer and proud northerner - joins LBC for a chat about Holmes, tackling Conan Doyle, writing for TV and theatre, the cultural landscape in Leeds and Buffy. Because what's a chat without some Whedon.

LBC chat with a WY Playhouse choreographer on the Transform 2013 - Burmantofts Stories project. We also discuss dance, dialogue and the importance of theatre engaging with the wider community.

LBC discuss all sorts of everything with Peter Bullimore from Sharing Stories, to Hearing Voices, his children's book 'A Village Called Pumpkin' and the role society plays in mental health perceptions.

LeedsBookClub chat with the fascinating Ruth F Long about books, SF and fantasy, writing, publishing, some films and tv and we'd have happily gone on for hours if real life hadn't intervened!

LBC and James chat about his recent book - about growing up Gay and Amish, twitter, poetry, films and everything in between!

Chris and I natter about the latest in his Richard Nottingham series; his upcoming book launch on Sept 14th and the various projects he's juggling!

LeedsBookClub and BookElfLeeds chat about the world book night books, travelling suitcase library, Arcadia, White Swan, book swapping, buffets, buns and cakes. Giving away I Capture The Castle and The Player of Games on 23-04-12 7pm!

Where LeedsBookClub and mate J discuss the first book in the Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins. Expect rambily giggily natter. Detailed look at the book (spoilers!) and some mention of the film!

We chat about writing, travelling, Lizzie Siddal and Charles Dickens!

Chris Nickson - author of the Richard Nottingham Series (The Broken Token, Cold Cruel Winter and the Constant Lovers) chats with us about all kinds of everything!

Where BOOKELFLEEDS and LEEDSBOOKCLUB discuss the works of Fannie Flagg - starrting with Fried Green Tomatoes, Welcome to the world Baby Girl, Standing in the Rainbow, Can't wait to get to Heaven & I still dream about you.

Let's Get Classical! Where we go Bronte crazy, and Austen mad - discussing The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion. And the film/tv adaptations are also mentioned.

Where @BookElfLeeds and @LeedsBookClub discuss Deirdre Purcell's Falling for a Dancer, and the subsequent BBC adaptation.

His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman The Dark is Rising Sequence - Susan Cooper The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness - Michelle Paver