Intoxication prose in search of human connection: a London novel

Booker-shortlisted writer, Michele Roberts’s latest 14th novel, pays homage to all London’s streetwalkers and literal writer from the likes of Dickens, Woolf. In 1851 Joseph Benson is hired by journalist and social reformer Henry Mayhew, to research for his groundbreaking newspaper articles about the working classes that will later form his magnum opus, London Labour…

Past, present and future

The historic locomotive Flying Scotsman is due to arrive into York station on Sunday morning around 8 am, alongside new Virgin Trains Azuma Class 800 train, the HST Class 43 and the InterCity225 Class91. The four trains in parallel display are taking part in a historic specatacle down the line from Tollerton, South of Easingwold.