Northern Bookshelf
Interviews, round-ups and recommendations from our quarterly readers’ newsletter.
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...
Recommendations in Translation
19 June 2020 by
Katharine Halls is an Arabic-to-English translator. Her translation, with Adam Talib, of Raja Alem’s novel The Dove’s Necklace received the...
The North Recommends: The Poetry Book Society
19 June 2020 by
Summer is finally here and we can’t wait to share our seasonal selections with you. As I write, our members...
The North Recommends: Carcanet Press
19 June 2020 by
Founded 1969 by Mexican-born Michael Schmidt, Carcanet Press has been publishing outstanding poetry in English and translation from around the...
The North Recommends: Forum Books
19 June 2020 by
Forum Books are up for Best Indie Bookshop in The British Book Awards having won the North round. The awards...
10 Books by Black Northern Writers
19 June 2020 by
We are horrified by the acts of racism, injustice and intolerance that are the daily experience of many. New...
