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Northern Soul’s Best Reads of 2017
Despite our hopes that 2017 would be a marked improvement on the turbulent 2016, this year came with more bumps, twists and turns than the Big One at Blackpool Pleasure Beach. But, as usual, it was an excellent year for bookworms and the good reads kept on coming.
Read the full story..“I will most definitely go screaming into that good night.” Jenny Eclair talks to Northern Soul
“The gigs were so rough that I had to come out kicking everyone in the face.”
Read the full story..Review: Arundhati Roy, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
As an undergraduate at Manchester Metropolitan University (many moons ago) I opted for the intriguingly titled Modern Gothic module. It was here that I stumbled across 1997 Booker Prize-winning The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, the story of twins Rahel and Estha growing up in the politically turbulent state of Kerala in the 1960s.
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