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.
The North Recommends: Waterstones Bookshop Durham
16 December 2019 by
Waterstones Bookshop on Saddler Street, in the heart of the beautiful and historic Durham City, is a warm and welcoming...
Interview with Jenn Ashworth
16 December 2019 by
Notes Made While Falling is both a genre-bending memoir and a cultural study of traumatised and sickened selves in fiction...
The Making of Recovery Songs
17 October 2019 by
When I slowly began to get well from a crippling mental illness that led to a chronic drug and alcohol...
What working on Stitched taught me about young people
30 September 2019 by
Stitched: A Hip Hopera has been an incredibly special project to work on, and one that I feel privileged to...
The North Recommends: ABC Book Club
19 September 2019 by
We started our book club, ABC, about 21 years ago in Horsforth, Leeds. Our children were all at primary school...
Interview with Okechukwu Nzelu
19 September 2019 by
Nnenna Maloney is a teenage girl juggling friendships, school and sex. But as she approaches womanhood she also wants to...
The North Recommends: Bloodaxe Books
19 September 2019 by
Neil Astley founded Bloodaxe Books in 1978 to give a platform to emerging new poets, many from the North of...
The North Recommends: The Poetry Book Society
19 September 2019 by
The Poetry Book Society’s Autumn Selections are among our most striking yet. Spanning across the globe from US legend Jericho...
The North Recommends: Curious Arts
19 September 2019 by
Founded in Newcastle Gateshead in 2016, Curious Arts celebrates and explores Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Culture through the...
The North Recommends: Plackitt & Booth
19 September 2019 by
We’re Plackitt & Booth Booksellers Ltd – Lytham, Lancashire, a super successful indie running high profile author events and serving...
What we’re reading: Autumn edition
19 September 2019 by
Charlotte Ramshaw – The Hiding Game by Naomi Wood For fans of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, Naomi Wood’s The Hiding Game...
Verbena White on winning a Northern Writers’ Award
Writing is something I’ve always done. However, poetry was something I saw as almost pretentious; perhaps because back then I...
