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Book Review: Excavate! The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall
In the preface to this new Faber compendium of essays about The Fall, co-editors Tessa Norton and Bob Stanley declare that ‘this book is not about a rock band’. They say: ‘This is not even about Mark E Smith. The book is for Mark E Smith more than it is about him.”
“I’m a very late starter to this novel-writing lark.” Award-winning crime author Trevor Wood talks to Northern Soul
The huge surge in the readership of crime novels during the present unpleasantness arises partly, no doubt, from the visceral pleasure, sheer entertainment and, yes, reassurance to be had from a gripping plot, set within a somewhat familiar formula in a world where justice might actually triumph.
Book Review: Castles from Cobwebs by J.A. Mensah
During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, I stopped reading.
Book Review – Relax: A User’s Guide to Life in the Age of Anxiety by Timothy Caulfield
It’s easy to believe that the entire world has lost its mind.
Book Review: Manchester – Something Rich and Strange
Attempting to sum up the city of Manchester in one book is no small task.
Book Review: The Beauty of Broken Things by Catherine North
I’m increasingly drawn to stories set in the places I know well.
Book review: Irreplaceable – A History of England in 100 Places by Philip Wilkinson
Historic England’s new book of ‘irreplaceable’ places in England locates a decent proportion of them in the North.
Book Review: Raising Sparks by Ariel Kahn
Ariel Kahn’s Raising Sparks is a paean to Israel and to the esoteric teachings of Kabbalah.
Book Review – Hometown Tales: Lancashire by Jenn Ashworth and Benjamin Webster
Like Dial-a-Disc or foil disposable ashtrays in takeaways, the cinema double bill has receded into the lint of a barely conceivable past yet to be reappropriated by the stylists of today’s lazy nostalgia.
“We have to find more hopeful ways to represent dementia.” Naomi Krüger talks to Northern Soul about her debut novel, May
Having lost two close family members to dementia, I am interested in portrayals of this dreadful illness in literature but have often been disappointed by its presentation.
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