Saturday Blog

Events

Rope, a play by Patrick Hamilton, Dudley Little Theatre, 27th September 2025 As with reading books, I do my research after, not befo...

Events

Booksellers Association Conference and Trade Show, 21st September 2025 We were away at nine on a bright cold Sunday morning in nervo...

The name Murnane was new to me, showing how insular one’s literary preoccupations can be. My knowledge of Australian novelists was limi...

Poetry examines feeling. There are other ways to do this of course, the objective/empathetic practice of the therapist immediately comi...

A few thoughts – making reference to Spoz’ 2019 publication Sometimes Angry. I don’t have an issue with performance poetry. I have see...

Musings

It’s me, I guess. I say this with absolute humility: the fact that serious books have been sold now in Dudley for fourteen years, more-...

Saturday Books Poetry Breakfast 15th March 2025 Lee Benson Benson’s early years as a rock musician told: he knew how to take hold of...

Events

To launch her new book, ‘Lie of the Land’, published by Salt Publishing Ltd, Kerry Hadley-Pryce visited Saturday Books at their new loc...

Black Country Xtra does sterling work promoting the culture of the region and has notable presenters, among them Lee Benson, Billy Spak...

Rob (RM) Francis, poet, novelist and senior university teacher, wows the crowd at the Poetry Breakfast (photo by Jay Lewis) Saturday B...