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.
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...
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...
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...
10 Books by Black Northern Writers
19 June 2020 by
We are horrified by the acts of racism, injustice and intolerance that are the daily experience of many. New...
Interview with Eliza Clark
19 June 2020 by
In Boy Parts, the incendiary debut novel from Eliza Clark, Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men...
New Writing North: What We’re Reading
19 June 2020 by
Claire Malcolm – Whilst on lockdown I’ve been up and down with reading, sometimes intensely paging through books...
Home Time – with Helen Shaddock
With a free journal template, Home Time invites you to draw and write your day, and to reflect upon the small details that make each day unique.
Home Time
10 June 2020 by
The news that we were to go into lockdown hit me hard. Panic set in. I’m a creature of habit...
