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NWN’s Books of the Year 2020
11 December 2020 by
As is our custom, we’re finishing the year with a round-up of the books we most enjoyed reading in 2020....
The North Recommends: Publishers Picks
10 December 2020 by
Zoe Turner, Comma Press Cat Step by Alison Irvine (Dead Ink) follows single mother Liz who has moved to her recently...
Creativity in Lockdown: Write Outside
01 December 2020 by
With the nights drawing in and Christmas lights twinkling, it’s hard to remember back to summer 2020, but it did...
How to write the perfect letter to a literary agent
27 November 2020 by
Rufus Purdy, an editor and tutor on the forthcoming Write Here… Online novel-writing course, explains how to write the perfect...
New Narratives for the North East | Commissioned Writing
14 October 2020 by
Early in 2020, fifteen writers were commissioned to create new work about the North East in an ambitious project from...
Climate Reading Group: Ledger
22 September 2020 by
Ledger by Jane Hirshfield (Bloodaxe 2020) By her own account, Jane Hirshfield’s latest collection Ledger is ‘a book of stock-taking, a registration...
The North Recommends: HarperNorth
18 September 2020 by
HarperNorth was set up with the aim of doing things differently. What we hadn’t banked on was 2020 being the...
The North Recommends: Through the Wardrobe Bookshop
18 September 2020 by
Through the Wardrobe Books is a specialist children’s bookshop in the small West Yorkshire town of Mirfield. Set in a...
The North Recommends: Up North Books podcast
18 September 2020 by
We are Up North Books, a new podcast hosted by Beth Barker and Kate Baguley celebrating all things northern literature....
The North Recommends: Little Apple Bookshop
18 September 2020 by
The Little Apple Bookshop has been selling books in the heart of York since 1997. We get visitors from all...
Interview with Ann Cleeves
18 September 2020 by
In this interview we chat to Ann Cleeves about The Darkest Evening, her writing process and how writing can help with...
What we’re reading: Autumn Edition
18 September 2020 by
Rebecca Wilkie I love memoirist, Cathy Rentzenbrink’s writing, so was delighted to receive an early copy of her latest book, Dear...
