As I travelled to Cheshire’s Alderley Edge to sample the new spring menu at Luciano by Gino D’Acampo, my mind turned to Valentina Harris. Those of you with long memories will recognise that name. Harris was a reasonably...
Read MorePotentially, at least, the author is a time traveller, and the novel their time machine, one which – Tardis-like – contains the whole of their fixed point in history while being simultaneously their means of stepping outside of...
Read MoreThere have been considerable developments since The Psychedelic Furs last commanded a Manchester stage. Pandemic and other issues aside, the band have found it within themselves to birth an album’s worth of new material (after a...
Read MoreLike many women I know, there have been times when I have struggled to voice my achievements. Perhaps this is because they haven’t seemed big enough or the right sort of accomplishment. There’s also the small fact that,...
Read MoreWe all know that Northern England, home to the Industrial Revolution, has been a land of great engineers. Does that mean it must be second rank when it comes to poets, musicians and artists? To Arthur Conan Doyle, author of...
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