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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
