It’s not easy being an independent publisher. Just ask any anyone in the industry about the long hours devoted to promotion and the number of rejections. Back in the late 1990s, independents were in danger of vanishing....
Read MoreIt’s 2015, the start of a New Year. Deep down we are hopeful – we’re making resolutions to eat less, drink less, and watch less Jeremy Kyle. And MPs are doing their bit by silently allowing a new VAT law to become...
Read MoreManchester roads made all the wrong headlines last month when flooding caused a giant sinkhole to appear in the middle of Mancunian way – and then became an unlikely tourist attraction. Not surprisingly, this caused chaos...
Read MoreMost Northern traditions involve beer. Beer was once a staple food of the North, the idea of it got us through a morning at work, it measured out the time we had for dinner – four pints meant you got an hour, two pints meant you...
Read MoreYou can see them crouching beside the tables, cameras out, tape measures at the ready: show groupies. A selective and determined small group of people, like myself, who coo and ooh at the size of someone’s plums. The Northern...
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