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.
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...
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...
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....
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
