Author: Danny Moran
Book Review: The Abstainer by Ian McGuire
Here it is. The Manchester Martyrs were three members of a large gang who attacked a horse-drawn police van on Hyde Road in September 1867.
Read the full story..Books: The Northern Question – A History of a Divided Country by Tom Hazeldine
In his new column, Northern Soul’s Manchester Correspondent, Danny Moran, reflects on the North-South divide and asks, does the North have a proper backbone?
Read the full story..Album Review: I Am Not A Dog On A Chain, Morrissey
As those who can still be bothered to care continue to fume at his flirtationship with the far right, Morrissey presses on with the insouciance of a thrice-wed gaslighter, essentially putting down the dog whistle he’s been tooting on for the past quarter of a century, holding it behind his back, while summarily serving up an album of such solicitous pop savvy as to protest he’s been decent all along.
Read the full story..“The dark person is coming.” Author Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi talks to Northern Soul
Jennifer Makumbi’s father was a bank manager in Kampala. It was 1978, at the height of Idi Amin’s reign of terror, when her family’s lives were changed forever.
Read the full story..“I write the books that shout loudest in my head.” Northern Soul talks to crime author Val McDermid
If you were to set a murder mystery in Harrogate then its crime writing festival would offer the perfect setting for a puckish postmodern whodunnit.
Read the full story..“Maybe there will be some sort of renewal to come out of this.” Polyp, founder of the Peterloo Memorial Campaign, talks to Northern Soul
It’s a sun-splashed Tuesday morning 72 hours from Peterloo day. I’m at the Kim by the Sea café in regenerated Hulme.
Read the full story..Editor's Picks
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- World Autism Awareness Week 2021: Henry Normal shares poems to, and inspired by, his son Johnny
- “Around lunchtime, you’d break out all the bangers that everyone knows.” Northern Soul talks to buskers about life under lockdown
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