Northern Bookshelf
Interviews, round-ups and recommendations from our quarterly readers’ newsletter.
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The North Recommends: The Stripey Badger
14 December 2018 by
The Stripey Badger Bookshop and its sister business, Stripey Badger Coffee Shop & Kitchen, both opened in the village of...
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The North Recommends: Allerton Book Group
14 December 2018 by
Allerton Book Group is a long established group, which started in about 2000-2001 at Allerton Library in South Liverpool. It...
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The North Recommends: Poetry Book Society
27 September 2018 by
The Poetry Book Society is a unique poetry book club founded by T S Eliot. Our quarterly handpicked poetry parcels...
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The North Recommends: Imagined Things
27 September 2018 by
Imagined Things is a proudly independent bookshop inside the beautiful & iconic Westminster Arcade in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. We opened...
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The North Recommends: Peepal Tree Press
27 September 2018 by
Peepal Tree Press is the world’s largest publisher of Caribbean and Black British writing. Based in Leeds and founded in 1985...
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The North Recommends: The Reader’s Storybarn
27 September 2018 by
The Reader’s Storybarn is an interactive story-centre for children to explore, share and discover a love of books and storytelling....
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The North Recommends: Oxenhope St Mary’s Book Group
27 September 2018 by
The Oxenhope book group began four years ago and is one of 103 book groups supported by Bradford Library Service....
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Interview with Una
27 September 2018 by
Cree tells the story of Jolene, a woman from Durham who finds solace, support and ultimately hope from attending the women’s...
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What we’re reading: Autumn edition
27 September 2018 by
Laura Fraine As we gear up for Durham Book Festival starting next week, my work life seems to be hurtling...
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The North Recommends: Garden Village Book Club
08 June 2018 by
In February of this year I asked people in our local community if they’d be interested in joining a book...
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The North Recommends: The Big Malarkey Festival
08 June 2018 by
I suffer from acute sweetshop syndrome when considering the acres of possibility for programming The Big Malarkey Festival, Hull Libraries’...
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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 –...