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: The Book Corner
08 December 2017 by
At the Book Corner, we have tried to create an inviting space where our customers can browse our wide range...
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15 Winter Words Worth Remembering
08 December 2017 by
Lurking in the dustier corners of the dictionary is a host of words that might come in handy during the...
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The North recommends: New Parents’ Book Group
08 December 2017 by
I heard about the New Parents’ Book Group when I was pregnant and looked to see which books the group...
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The North recommends: Poetry Book Society
08 December 2017 by
Every quarter the Poetry Book Society celebrates the best new contemporary poetry books. This month marks the launch of our...
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Featured publisher: Dead Ink Books
08 December 2017 by
Dead Ink Books is an independent publisher of literary fiction. We publish work from new and emerging authors that we...
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5 years of pirates and princesses, astronauts and aliens, magicians and monsters
23 November 2017 by
The Monster Zoo cast and crew: Clockwise from top left Joe Johnston, Rachel Gay, Zoe Lambert, Andy Stephenson, Stacey Sampson, Ruth...
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Sarah Dunnakey: The Northern Writers’ Awards
21 November 2017 by
On Thursday 30th January 2014 I was sitting at my computer. Working. But I had the occasional glance at Twitter...
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Penned in the Margins: Clarissa Luard Award Shortlisted Publishers
18 October 2017 by
Penned in the Margins’ first incarnation was as a reading series in a converted railway arch in south London. It...
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Little Toller Books: Clarissa Luard Award Shortlisted Publishers
16 October 2017 by
When Gracie and I moved to west Dorset, ten years ago now, I’d spend hours in the County Museum library...
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An Interview with Gwendoline Riley
12 October 2017 by
Neve, a writer in her mid-thirties, is married to an older man, with whom she has a fractious and occasionally...
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An Interview with Lara Pawson
12 October 2017 by
Lara Pawson’s This is the Place to Be is an autobiography told in stark fragments of memory. Detailing her experiences...
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An Interview with David Keenan
12 October 2017 by
This Is Memorial Device is a novel about the greatest band that never existed, told through twenty-six chapters by a...
