Meet best-selling author Glenda Young, who writes gripping historical sagas set in the northeast and cosy crimes set in Scarborough.

Her cosy crimes were shortlisted, with Richard Osman and Val McDermid, in the Dead Good Readers' Awards for Best New Crime Series.Glenda’s popular sagas include the Toffee Girl series.

Her unique claim to fame is that she created ‘Riverside’ – the first ever weekly soap opera to appear in The People’s Friend, the longest running women’s magazine in the world.

A life-long fan of the soap opera Coronation Street, Glenda has also written TV tie-In books for the long-running ITV programme