As a performance in Bingley’s Myrtle Park, Brighter Still marks both the longest night of the year and the culmination of ...

‘In folk horror, the soil beneath our feet is seismically unstable’, writes Hollie Starling in her introduction to Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror. What a prescient collection ...

Contemporary art sits between two forms of repetition. One is the tired canon that keeps circling familiar movements, the other is the endless stream of algorithmic images that look perfect but feel ...

As we approach the end of 2025, we’re looking back at the things that have brought us immense comfort during the year. For the team at Northern Soul, books were once again a source of great joy, and ...

Some English supporters at the recent international match were booing the Andorran national anthem. I doubt most of them know where exactly Andorra is, let alone what it is like and what it stands for ...

She was lauded as an exceptional painter. Now a new exhibition highlights something entirely different: rag rugs. Tullie House in Carlisle is hosting Winifred Nicholson: Cumbrian Rag Rugs. Revealing ...

As a student of literature picking up a modern novel involving interwar lavish consumerism in the West, I’m bracing myself for something rigidly estranged from the likes of Hemingway and Fitzgerald.

The act of writing is by nature a solitary one. It’s also – and here I must ask for your forgiveness for what follows – an endeavour all too ripe for metaphor. In many ways, the writer is a perennial ...

The first time I went to the Manchester Literature Festival, I bumped into Lady Antonia Fraser coming out of the toilet. That was 14 years ago, but you don’t forget meeting a literary icon in the bogs ...

And so to the hottest dining ticket in town, Bangkok Diners Club, upstairs in the Edinburgh Castle pub in Manchester’s Ancoats. It’s a new venture from husband and wife team Ben and Bo Humphreys from ...

You won’t find Icklewick on any map but it’s a place you’ll recognise easily enough: the local radio station is run from a taxi rank, the locals get up to all sorts for charitable causes, they’re a ...

Lost Souls, the debut album by Cheshire trio Doves, was released 25 years ago. That quarter of a century has been a hell of a ride for the band, made up of brothers Andy and Jez Williams and frontman ...