Book Review: Lying Perfectly Still by Laura Fish
The best books draw you into worlds you didn’t know existed and then change your own world view....
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Jane Austen at Home: Northern Soul talks to TV historian Lucy Worsley
“She was very intolerant of foolishness, vanity, empty talk, obsequiousness, time-wasting, cruelty.” That’s Lucy Worsley brilliantly capturing her heroine Jane Austen. The TV historian, educator and chief curator at Historic...
Read MoreBook Review: Why Vinyl Matters by Jennifer Otter Bickerdike
As an enthusiastic crate digger, I thought I didn’t need to be told why vinyl matters. But when presented with this fine-looking and lovingly compiled book, I was happy to read the arguments put forward. In Why Vinyl...
Read MoreNorthern 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...
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‘putting humanity in its place’ Barrowbeck by Andrew Michael Hurley
The 1970s was a good decade to be a child if you happened to be drawn to the glossy exotica of...
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