I got two klaxon alerts on reading this debut novel. The gist of the story is that Clare and Phoebe’s relationship is under severe strain when Clare miscarries their baby girl. They up sticks to the countryside (after left a relation’s house in a will), h…

This year, the Mining Art Gallery at The Auckland Project are marking the centenary of Tom McGuinness with a powerful retrospective, ‘Out of the Darkness’. A true “quiet man” of the north-east, Tom McGuinness used his art not merely to document the minin…

One of the region’s finest singer-songwriters Nadine Shah is playing a special BBC Proms gig at The Glasshouse on Friday 24 July with support from Newcastle breakthrough act, Knats. The BBC Proms are heading to the North East for a spectacular homecom…