Arts Diary: Will Marriott

Bradford's Cartwright Hall, which reopens tomorrow after some plastering problems left it shut to the public for the last year, features a Shonibare artwork as part of the pride of its collection.

Wanderer, a small boat created by the Nigerian-British artist in response to the Bicentenary of the Parliamentary Abolition of the Slave Trade, has been housed at the Bradford museum since 2007.

An author is enjoying the last laugh after discovering her first novel has become a bestseller – 40 years after it was first published.

Lynne Ellison wrote The Green Bronze Mirror as a "bookish" 14-year-old, secretly penning chapters at the back of the classroom while she should have been studying. Though the historical adventure was impressive enough to be snapped up for publication, the precocious teenager ended up spending the rest of her teenage years trying to live down the achievement.

But now, 44 years later and aged 58, Lynne has finally "come out on top" with the re-release of her work smashing sales records for independent publisher CN Posner Books. Since its re-release in 2009, the book has sold more than 1,000 copies, becoming the best-selling title in CN Posner Books' four-year history.

The Green Bronze Mirror is available, priced 4.99, from Amazon and www. cnposnerbooks.co.uk.

Dead Ends is a new collaborative art project, exploring the issue of unemployment by documenting discarded jobcentre slips, left behind by people looking for work.

Photographer Theo Simpson spent eight months in 2009 collecting the slips, with many being discovered well away from the jobcentres themselves, on pavements, down back alleys, in phone boxes and stuffed in salt bins. The slips have all been documented in their original state.

The resulting images will be exhibited for 24 hours only, at the Orchard Centre, West Bar, Sheffield. The exhibition opens from 6pm-11pm today and 10am-6pm tomorrow.

Pete Doherty, former Libertines frontman, is reuniting the band and returning to the stage at the Leeds and Reading Festivals and is warming up this month with a gig in Barnsley.

Dawn Waddington and James Carr of Sheffield's First Light Promotions Ltd, now based in the Civic Barnsley, are behind the surprising gig to be held at The Walkabout in Barnsley on June 17.

Tickets available from Seetickets, Barnsley Civic, and Walkabout.