Chaz has a House of Stories to Tell ; Around 30 Years Ago Writer Chaz Brenchley Was Travelling Home to Cornwall From Edinburgh When He Stopped Off for a Weekend in Newcastle to Stay with a Friend. He's Stayed Ever Since. He Spoke to Mike Kelly

Evening Chronicle › August 21, 2010

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JUST 100 yards away from the Bigg Market, a drinking destination with legendary status not just in Newcastle but the country as a whole, is the much more sober Lit & Phil.

Founded in 1793 as a 'conversation club' and now the country's biggest independent library, it is where Chaz Brenchley often goes with his laptop to work on his latest book.

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Chaz has a House of Stories to Tell ; Around 30 Years Ago Writer Chaz Brenchley Was Travelling Home to Cornwall From Edinburgh When He Stopped Off for a Weekend in Newcastle to Stay with a Friend. He's Stayed Ever Since. He Spoke to Mike Kelly

He's not the only writer to use the facility and any given day there are always a number of familiar faces there, forming a strange 'Trappist' gang.

He laughed: "There's a little group of us who meet in the ...

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