I once spent an afternoon with the subject of a Len Grant photograph, specifically because he’d been the subject of a Len Grant photograph, for the purposes of a magazine column. It was a sundry few hours in the company of a...
Read More“It took 17 years from typing the first word of the first manuscript to finally being published last year. There were three unpublished manuscripts before my debut Precious You eventually, miraculously, fought its way off...
Read MoreJennifer Makumbi’s father was a bank manager in Kampala. It was 1978, at the height of Idi Amin’s reign of terror, when her family’s lives were changed forever. To get a fix on what happened when ‘Manchester Happened’...
Read MoreLike at least 50,000 other Liverpudlians, the writer Ian Salmon recently went on an impromptu holiday to Madrid. “It was brilliant,” he says about his trip to the Champions League final where his beloved Liverpool won their...
Read MoreIn a series of articles, Northern Soul’s Phil Pearson talks to all manner of fascinating folk about the room they use to write in, paint in, and do all things creative. This week it’s writer and journalist, Paolo...
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