Books Editorial
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Borders Book Festival Online
Although this year’s festival has been cancelled, Borders Book Festival have got an amazing line-up of events that can be enjoyed online from the comfort of your own home.
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Murmuration
New Writing North are creating a collective poem for our times. Murmuration is a way to bring us all together, a mass online collaboration to create a collective poem for our ...
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Lockdown Tales
Calling all Northumbrians (hippies, gadgies and bairns). These strange days are history in the making, and your stories, no matter how small, are part of this history.
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At Home With 4 Indies
Forum Books in Hexham has teamed up with bookselling friends at 3 of the UK's best Independent Bookshops - Linghams, Bookish & Booka Bookshop - to work together on an exciting...
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Book Of The Month: The Mirror And The Light
The final book in Hilary Mantel’s ‘Wolf Hall’ trilogy is laden with more goodies than a 16th century Michaelmas feast.
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Books To Survive A Virus
If you’ve got time on your hands to do a bit of reading, then let Steve Long guide you towards some good stuff.
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Cleopatra Goes To Prison
Claudia Durastanti (translated by Christine Donougher) - Like Cleopatra – the Egyptian one – Caterina is adept at juggling lovers. But whereas Cleopatra’s affairs were all wra...
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The Broken Ones
Ren Richards - Ren Richards is the pen name of Lauren DeStefano, a US writer who has won much acclaim for her dystopian series of YA novels. This is her first stab at adult su...
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Hi Five
Joe Ide - This is the fourth in Joe Ide’s ‘IQ’ series of LA-set crime thrillers, and it’s as high-octane as ever and packing plenty of heart. IQ is Isaiah Quintabe, a young bl...
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The Man on the Street
Trevor Wood - 2012. Jimmy is a Falkland’s War veteran who, while serving in the navy, suffered significant psychological damage. His wife has left him, he’s estranged from his...
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Forgotten Masters
Edited by William Dalrymple - As the East India Company extended its sway across India in the late eighteenth century, many remarkable artworks were commissioned by Company of...
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Such A Fun Age
Kiley Reid - Kiley Reid’s debut novel begins in a well-to-do supermarket in Philadelphia. It’s late. A young black woman, Emira, is there with Briar, a white two-year-old todd...
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The Holdout
Graham Moore - The United States. When fifteen-year-old schoolgirl Jessica Silver goes missing, presumed dead, suspicion falls on one of her schoolteachers. There is evidence ...
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