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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An Interview with Kapka Kassabova
12 October 2017 by
Kapka Kassabova’s Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe recounts an extraordinary journey to the borderlands of Eastern Europe....
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An Interview with Denise Mina
11 October 2017 by
The Long Drop is a true crime novel which recounts the story of Peter Manuel, a serial killer operating in...
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An Interview with Adelle Stripe
11 October 2017 by
Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile is a novel inspired by the bittersweet life of the Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar,...
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Lantana Publishing: Clarissa Luard Award Shortlisted Publishers
10 October 2017 by
Alice Curry (Founder) with Chicken in the Kitchen author Nnedi Okorafor and illustrator Mehrdokht Amini at the Children’s Africana Book...
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WriteNow Live Newcastle
02 October 2017 by
Writing is a very solitary pursuit. Musicians can jam together, artists can paint together. We writers, us storytellers, do what...
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Fiction is the real truth
29 August 2017 by
There is a question I’ve always been interested in as a writer, perhaps more so than any other. What is...
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Writing for BBC Radio 4: Afternoon Drama
08 August 2017 by
Photo Credit: Maria Spadafora Kamal Kaan is a writer and performer. He read Architecture at Cambridge University and awarded a...
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Writing my first novel
04 August 2017 by
I’ve always wanted to write a novel but I’ve never had the ideas or the commitment and perseverance to finish...
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I can writer like a dream
03 August 2017 by
I can write like a dream. And I do it every day. I’ve done it every day since I was...
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Margaret Mulligan and Read Regional
12 July 2017 by
The month of June has seen me up and out at the crack of dawn, (previously unheard of) climbing into...
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Jane Austen 200 – Finding inspiration from early women’s writing
23 June 2017 by
‘I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever...
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Glimpses into everyday life: Read Regional 2017
22 June 2017 by
Deborah Andrews is the author of Walking the Lights , which has been described as ‘a feminist Withnail and I’...
