Articles relating to: It’s Not Grim Up North
Books: Best Northern Reads (Part One)
Where would we be right now without books? For all my enthusiasm to gobble up the latest series of Brooklyn Nine-Nine or bingewatch The Tiger King (if you haven’t given into the hype, then do so immediately), the only thing that quells my internal anxiety and settles my soul is reading. There’s something reassuring about the weight of a book in my hands and the steady back-and-forth of lines on the page. When we’re feeling clipped and stifled, books allow us to fly.
Book launch (digital): You Never Told Me by Sarah Jasmon
Social media gets a bad rap.
Book Review: The Silence of Dogs in Cars by Martin Usborne
I am a dog fanatic.
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.
“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.
Review: Lush Spa, Liverpool
I’m a fan of a good spa day but switching my brain off is tricky at the best of the times.
Theatre Review: Wuthering Heights, Royal Exchange, Manchester
There are more adaptations of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights than you can shake a stick at.
Book Review: The Quarry by Ben Halls
Toxic masculinity has become a bit of a buzzword in recent months.
Book Review: Anne Brontë Reimagined by Adelle Hay
It’s no secret that I spent my younger years with my head buried in novels by the Brontë sisters.
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