The Borrowers: a children’s fantasy classic or a political allegory?
Since publication in 1952, when it won the Carnegie Medal for outstanding children’s book by a...
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‘a poetic approach to the sediment of memory’ Author Jeff Young talks to Northern Soul
There’s a man running full pelt down Winslow Street in Walton, a cardboard shoebox held out in...
Read MoreBook Review: 100 Voices edited by Miranda Roszkowski
Like 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 MoreNortherners: A History, from the Ice Age to the Present Day
We 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...
Read MoreBook Review: Dream Girl by Laura Lippman
It is hardly unusual these days to find that the protagonist of a widely admired paperback is a writer. Nor is it uncommon to discover that the same rhapsodically reviewed novel takes as its theme the stuff of Saturday magazine...
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