Northern Bookshelf
Interviews, round-ups and recommendations from our quarterly readers’ newsletter.
Recent Poetry from the North
15 March 2021 by
I’m looking forward to reading Michael Symmons Roberts’ eighth collection Ransom (Cape). A masterful poet who explores expansive landscapes in...
What We’re Reading: Spring Edition
15 March 2021 by
New year, new books! Here at NWN, we started off 2021 with some great reads that got us through yet...
Interview with Tawseef Khan
15 March 2021 by
I’ve read that you’ve been formulating the idea for The Muslim Problem for a few years. Was there a particular...
Interview with J.A. Mensah, author of Castles from Cobwebs
14 December 2020 by
In this interview we talk to J. A Mensah about her debut novel and inaugural winner of the NorthBound Book...
NWN’s Books of the Year 2020
11 December 2020 by
As is our custom, we’re finishing the year with a round-up of the books we most enjoyed reading in 2020....
The North Recommends: Publishers Picks
10 December 2020 by
Zoe Turner, Comma Press Cat Step by Alison Irvine (Dead Ink) follows single mother Liz who has moved to her recently...
The North Recommends: HarperNorth
18 September 2020 by
HarperNorth was set up with the aim of doing things differently. What we hadn’t banked on was 2020 being the...
The North Recommends: Through the Wardrobe Bookshop
18 September 2020 by
Through the Wardrobe Books is a specialist children’s bookshop in the small West Yorkshire town of Mirfield. Set in a...
The North Recommends: Up North Books podcast
18 September 2020 by
We are Up North Books, a new podcast hosted by Beth Barker and Kate Baguley celebrating all things northern literature....
The North Recommends: Little Apple Bookshop
18 September 2020 by
The Little Apple Bookshop has been selling books in the heart of York since 1997. We get visitors from all...
Interview with Ann Cleeves
18 September 2020 by
In this interview we chat to Ann Cleeves about The Darkest Evening, her writing process and how writing can help with...
What we’re reading: Autumn Edition
18 September 2020 by
Rebecca Wilkie I love memoirist, Cathy Rentzenbrink’s writing, so was delighted to receive an early copy of her latest book, Dear...
