Lady Annabella Marczewska of Jesmond is a polymath. DJ, dancer, model, artist and member of punk transgressors Women in Revolt, she recently also made a forage into film, curating a blend of much-loved and occasionally bizarre...
Read MoreWe all know the drill with academic conferences don’t we? The awkward social networking. A little passable grub, and some wine that you choke to keep down if you’re lucky. Too often the whole enterprise feels stale and distant....
Read MorePicture a book launch: chances are you’re imagining a staid and stifled event in a windowless inner-city Waterstones on a wet Wednesday afternoon, with copies of books and glasses of steadily souring white wine laid out in...
Read MoreGuy Mankowski is a novelist based in Newcastle. Here he writes for Northern Soul about his third novel, How I Left The National Grid, to be published in February 2015. It’s about a Manchester-based singer who vanishes...
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