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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Featured Publisher: Saraband
08 June 2018 by
Saraband is a creative independent publisher championing original, imaginative, diverse writing, often from new voices. We publish both non-fiction –...
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The North Recommends: Poetry Book Society
08 June 2018 by
Here’s our roundup of the hottest new poetry releases to read this Summer: Girls are Coming Out of the Woods...
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What we’re reading: Summer holiday edition
08 June 2018 by
Claire Malcolm As I move from reading glasses to sunglasses this summer my poolside reading list includes two obsessions: Kudos, the final...
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The North Recommends: Forum Books
08 June 2018 by
Forum Books is an award-winning, independent bookshop in the heart of Corbridge, Northumberland, stocking an eye-popping range of handpicked books –...
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Interview with Paul Ferris
08 June 2018 by
The Boy in the Shed is a story of a life less than ordinary. Born in Ireland in 1965, Ferris and...
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Read Regional: Around the North in Twelve Library Authorities
29 May 2018 by
In a recent conversation, I was informed by an otherwise reasonable-seeming man that “We don’t need libraries anymore because you...
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Read Regional: Poets, past and present
03 May 2018 by
I’ve been to two of my four Read Regional events, which means I’m halfway through my mini tour of the...
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Read Regional: Author on Tour
27 April 2018 by
Usually, when a novel comes out I’ve found you have about six weeks. Six weeks of daily notifications on Twitter...
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Location, Location, Location
23 April 2018 by
Dream up a cast of interesting characters, shovel plenty of adversity at them, and how they cope makes for the...
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Self-publishing: The sin and the shame
05 April 2018 by
Four years ago, I began work on my novel. It would be called The Namesake and it would be my...
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Two Heads Are Better Than One
27 March 2018 by
Last year, after Chapel FM’s Writing on Air festival, Rosalind Fairclough (aka the poet Rosalind York) and I decided to...
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The North recommends: Poetry Book Society
09 March 2018 by
Every quarter our expert Selectors choose the best new poetry books for our members. Despite the snow, we’ve just launched...
