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.
New Narratives for the North East | Commissioned Writing
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
