Saturday Blog
The Brooke’s Bar Review – First Issue
Saturday Books Poetry Breakfast takes performance into print.
The Saturday Books Poetry Breakfast has a history. 2018 was the year ...
Thriller writers, you need a house
If you're about to start writing a domestic thriller or a horror story you should be thinking about the role of the house. And whatever...
Poetry Breakfast, December 2023
Saturday Books Poetry Breakfast
16th December 2023
Blue Moments at Poetry Breakfast …
Grief and the shock of untimely death are ...
A New Definition of ‘Local’
Saturday Books has been generously assisted by both publishers and writers in setting up a Local Authors Room. After a year the collect...
What are public spaces for?
Dudley’s reconfigured marketplace was incomplete when Saturday Books moved from Stone Street to Tower Street, some ten years ago. The r...
Fan friction
A long review of Alastair Campbell’s Living Better: How I Learned to Survive Depression
I’m a fan. The podcast The Rest is Politics,...
Why was The Salt Path a bestseller?
Raynor Winn’s account of the South West Coast Path was published in paperback in 2019, five years after the author and Moth her husband...
Some kind words from a customer
“I wanted to extend my thanks to you, Francis Sheppard, of Saturday Books, in Dudley, outside of Birmingham city center, who had to cha...
Travels in France 2023
Sunday 26th March
Waking in Dieppe, after a night of ferry-crossing in high seas, I look out to see rain and then wonder about takin...
Poetry Breakfast, February 2023
Saturday Books Poetry Breakfast
11th February 2023
Open mic special
Venue
Brooke’s Bar and Bistro, Dudley
Theme
Crossed in ...