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The North recommends: New Parents’ Book Group
08 December 2017 by
I heard about the New Parents’ Book Group when I was pregnant and looked to see which books the group...
The North recommends: Poetry Book Society
08 December 2017 by
Every quarter the Poetry Book Society celebrates the best new contemporary poetry books. This month marks the launch of our...
Featured publisher: Dead Ink Books
08 December 2017 by
Dead Ink Books is an independent publisher of literary fiction. We publish work from new and emerging authors that we...
5 years of pirates and princesses, astronauts and aliens, magicians and monsters
23 November 2017 by
The Monster Zoo cast and crew: Clockwise from top left Joe Johnston, Rachel Gay, Zoe Lambert, Andy Stephenson, Stacey Sampson, Ruth...
Sarah Dunnakey: The Northern Writers’ Awards
21 November 2017 by
On Thursday 30th January 2014 I was sitting at my computer. Working. But I had the occasional glance at Twitter...
Penned in the Margins: Clarissa Luard Award Shortlisted Publishers
18 October 2017 by
Penned in the Margins’ first incarnation was as a reading series in a converted railway arch in south London. It...
Little Toller Books: Clarissa Luard Award Shortlisted Publishers
16 October 2017 by
When Gracie and I moved to west Dorset, ten years ago now, I’d spend hours in the County Museum library...
An Interview with Gwendoline Riley
12 October 2017 by
Neve, a writer in her mid-thirties, is married to an older man, with whom she has a fractious and occasionally...
An Interview with Lara Pawson
12 October 2017 by
Lara Pawson’s This is the Place to Be is an autobiography told in stark fragments of memory. Detailing her experiences...
An Interview with David Keenan
12 October 2017 by
This Is Memorial Device is a novel about the greatest band that never existed, told through twenty-six chapters by a...
An Interview with Kapka Kassabova
12 October 2017 by
Kapka Kassabova’s Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe recounts an extraordinary journey to the borderlands of Eastern Europe....
An Interview with Denise Mina
11 October 2017 by
The Long Drop is a true crime novel which recounts the story of Peter Manuel, a serial killer operating in...
