Blog Posts
Interviews, stories and useful advice: our blog is regularly updated with a broad range of new articles to read, including content from our Northern Bookshelf quarterly newsletter.
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Climate Reading Group: Weather
28 August 2020 by
Not what you’d expect from a book about Climate Change, Jenny Offill’s Weather was something of a relief for this...
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Climate Reading Group: Love Letter to the Earth: Thich Nhat Hanh
26 June 2020 by
Love Letter to the Earth: Thich Nhat Hanh In February I went to Julie’s Bicycle’s ’We Make Tomorrow’ event in...
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Recommendations in Translation
19 June 2020 by
Katharine Halls is an Arabic-to-English translator. Her translation, with Adam Talib, of Raja Alem’s novel The Dove’s Necklace received the...
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The North Recommends: The Poetry Book Society
19 June 2020 by
Summer is finally here and we can’t wait to share our seasonal selections with you. As I write, our members...
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The North Recommends: Carcanet Press
19 June 2020 by
Founded 1969 by Mexican-born Michael Schmidt, Carcanet Press has been publishing outstanding poetry in English and translation from around the...
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The North Recommends: Forum Books
19 June 2020 by
Forum Books are up for Best Indie Bookshop in The British Book Awards having won the North round. The awards...
