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Book Review: Feathertide by Beth Cartwright
The outside world is starting to feel increasingly like the beginning of a dystopian movie, what with the threat of a Coronavirus epidemic causing people to panic buy loo roll and don plastic boxes and carrier bags as makeshift hazmat masks.
Read the full story..“It’s important to talk about northern voices.” Portico Prize-winning author Jessica Andrews on class, gender and the north
I’ve long been fascinated with The Portico Library, which sits above the mildly rowdy Old Bank pub on Manchester’s Mosley Street.
Read the full story..Book Review: The Quarry by Ben Halls
Toxic masculinity has become a bit of a buzzword in recent months.
Read the full story..Book Review: A Version of the Truth by B.P. Walter
Appearances can be deceptive.
Read the full story..Review: The Mechanics’ Institute Review, International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester
It’s a bit like Top Of The Pops.
Read the full story..Best-selling crime author Kerry Wilkinson talks to Northern Soul
Kerry Wilkinson has consistently topped the Amazon UK charts since 2011 with his Manchester-set Jessica Daniel (and spin-off Andrew Hunter) series of thrillers.
Read the full story..Byker Books (and not a sniff of PJ & Duncan)
Way back in the mists of time, before e-readers were invented and everyone with a blog was a ‘publisher’, a group of people from the North East of England who weren’t that enthralled by reading the memoirs of some ‘reality show’ nonentity came together…in a pub.
Read the full story..Why are there no crime novels with British Asian characters?
By AK Nawaz
Heard the one about the easily fatigued detective unable to outpace crooks during Ramadan? What about the drug boss who breaks off torturing his victims for midday prayer?
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