Monthly Archives: June 2014
Create Salford: kicking some creative ass
When I first moved to Manchester, I stumbled drunkenly into The King’s Arms one night and asked whereabouts in Manchester I was
Becoming a Novelist: Treason’s Daughter
Publication day. I woke up and ran downstairs to the laptop. There it was, available to order.
Keeping Rosy: Christine Bottomley gives Northern Soul the low-down
On Portland Street in Manchester city centre, sandwiched between Chinatown and the coach station, there’s a large disused office block.
Sunday Lunch at The Grill on the Alley
As a chef, reviewing a restaurant can be a bit of busman’s holiday.
Turtle Bay: a taste of the Caribbean comes to Manchester
Manchester’s first Caribbean restaurant is loud, lively and a place for, as Wiganer Karen Connolly might say, ‘a right rum do’.
Rebecca Ryan: from Shameless to A Taste of Honey
Actress Rebecca Ryan is a Northern girl. She is Manchester born and bred.
Emma Jane Unsworth tells Northern Soul about her delightfully decadent second novel, Animals
It’s an old trick in the publishing world to get a few high-profile pals of the author to say something pithy and nice about the book then plaster them somewhere prominent on the book jacket.
‘We are The Regiment of the Wounded’
The editor of Northern Soul talks to poet, novelist and scriptwriter Owen Sheers about his play, The Two Worlds of Charlie F.
Steven Mackintosh: From the Muppets to Manchester
There’s a moment in the BBC1 drama From There To Here when, not long after the IRA bomb detonates and destroys Manchester city centre, the character of Robbo stands with his hands on his head, surveying the ruins.
The Northern Chords Festival
It has been said that ‘where words fail, music speaks’.
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