The Northerner + JK Rowling | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/uk/the-northerner+books/jkrowling Index en-gb Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. 2017 Mon, 27 Feb 2017 03:54:54 GMT 2017-02-27T03:54:54Z en-gb Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. 2017 The Guardian https://assets.guim.co.uk/images/guardian-logo-rss.c45beb1bafa34b347ac333af2e6fe23f.png https://www.theguardian.com Duchess signals a step-down from her famous Alnwick Garden https://www.theguardian.com/uk/the-northerner/2012/oct/16/duchessofnorthumberland-alnwickgarden The woman behind the successful, but still controversial, project expects to end day-to-day involvement by 2015<p>You might not have thought that the north east of England with its many challenges would be the natural habitat of a duchess. But there you might be wrong.</p><p>There are lots of other things in the pipeline and I'll know when the time is right to step down completely - but we are aiming for 2015 as the point at which I can guarantee the long term sustainability of The Alnwick Garden without my day-to-day involvement. </p><p>I am working to raise the funding to complete the garden by then. That's our target, and it's important not only to finish it but to protect what we have built: the garden must continue to offer fantastic programmes for the community. There is no specific date and I won't leave the garden unless I am absolutely certain that it is in safe hands.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/the-northerner/2012/oct/16/duchessofnorthumberland-alnwickgarden">Continue reading...</a> Gardens ent and tourismHospitality, event managem Heritage Heritage Newcastle Children Downton Abbey Julian Fellowes JK Rowling Tue, 16 Oct 2012 06:00:00 GMT http://www.theguardian.com/uk/the-northerner/2012/oct/16/duchessofnorthumberland-alnwickgarden Photograph: PR Tree palace. The Duchess's vast complex up in the branches at Alnwick Garden. You can zoom round it in a wheelchair Photograph: PR Tree palace. The Duchess's vast complex up in the branches at Alnwick Garden. You can zoom round it in a wheelchair Martin Wainwright 2012-10-16T06:00:00Z Fifty Shades of Grey boosts local libraries https://www.theguardian.com/uk/the-northerner/2012/jul/13/fifty-shades-of-grey-jkrowling Good-hearted authors sign petitions against closures. But writing a best-seller looks more effective. So says Hartlepool<p>You shrink from leaping on to a media bandwagon, but this seems to be an unexpectedly good cause. The headline-making novel <em>Fifty Shades of Grey</em> is doing what years of good-hearted effort have struggled to achieve: encouraging people who normally have little to do with books, to read them.</p><p>And to use their local libraries which, for all the occasional bright spot such as York's new Reading Cafe in Rowntree Park which the <em>Guardian Northerner</em> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/the-northerner/2012/jul/12/libraries-universityofyork?newsfeed=true">highlighted yesterday</a>, are at risk from the public spending cuts. Hartlepool is an example. Our colleagues at <a href="http://www.northnews.co.uk/">North News</a> have sent a despatch on how E.L.James' novel and its successors are bringing borrowers in.</p><p>We don't normally get such interest for someone's first book, although it happens for established authors whose fans are waiting for the latest work to come out. The most comparable thing to it is Harry Potter. People generally read them in a week or two, but if they don't have to bring them back they don't. </p><p>This one has been on television and radio a lot and I understand the author has been on breakfast TV and on chat shows so it has caught peoples' attention. It has been pushed into the limelight and it has got people reading who didn't normally read, so that must be a good thing.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/the-northerner/2012/jul/13/fifty-shades-of-grey-jkrowling">Continue reading...</a> Books Fifty Shades of Grey JK Rowling Harry Potter Fri, 13 Jul 2012 09:00:00 GMT http://www.theguardian.com/uk/the-northerner/2012/jul/13/fifty-shades-of-grey-jkrowling Photograph: Rob Kim/Getty Images Fifty Shades of Grey last month became the fastest-selling paperback since records began. Photograph: Rob Kim/Getty Images Photograph: Rob Kim/Getty Images Fifty Shades of Grey last month became the fastest-selling paperback since records began. Photograph: Rob Kim/Getty Images Martin Wainwright 2012-07-13T09:00:00Z
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