The Kittiwake Trust

19th October 201819th October 2020

5 Minute Interview with Amina Marix Evans

Blogs, Interviews

Amina Marix Evans has worked across a broad range of book-related roles, within libraries, bookshops and publishing companies and freelance as an agent, translator and editor. In 2001, she set ... Read more

22nd August 201819th October 2020

5 Minute Interview with Cristina Peligra

Blogs, Interviews

Cristina Peligra is Senior Library Assistant at The Kittiwake Trust’s Multilingual Library in Newcastle upon Tyne. Originally from Italy, where she graduated in Dutch and German languages and literatures, she ... Read more

25th July 201819th October 2020

5 Minutes with David Crystal

Blogs, Interviews

David Crystal is honorary professor of linguistics at the University of Bangor, Wales, UK, but works from his home in Holyhead, Wales, as a writer, editor, lecturer, and broadcaster. He ... Read more

13th July 201819th October 2020

5 Minutes With Peggy Seeger

Blogs, Interviews

Peggy Seeger is a musician and writer. Her memoir First Time Ever was published by Faber & Faber in 2017. Seeger is also a Patron of Borderline Books, run by ... Read more

4th July 201819th October 2020

5 Minutes with Caroline Mitchell

Blogs, Interviews

Dr. Caroline Mitchell is Chair of The Kittiwake Trust, LBF’s 2018 Charity of the Year. The Trust oversees two projects: Borderline Books in Gateshead and The Multilingual Library in Newcastle. ... Read more

2nd July 201819th October 2020

5 Minute Interview with Michael Rosen

Blogs, Interviews

Michael Rosen is one of Britain’s best loved writers and performance poets for children and adults. He is currently Professor of Children’s Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London where he co-devised ... Read more

21st February 201819th October 2020

The London Book Fair Nominates The Kittiwake Trust as Charity of the Year 2018

LBF Press Releases, Press Releases

The Kittiwake Trust – a charity that gives free books to society’s most marginalised groups – has been selected by The London Book Fair as its Charity of the Year ... Read more