by librarians | Feb 7, 2020 | Curated collections, Portico Prize shortlist 2019
Ironopolis is a warren of streets, memories and people with secrets.Glen James Brown orchestrates a remarkable novel across these streets as Ironopolis tells its own story across three generations. Jean unveils a secret on her deathbed.Alan unravels the truth of his...
by librarians | Feb 7, 2020 | Curated collections, Portico Prize shortlist 2019
When Lucy wins a place at university, she thinks London will unlock her future. It is a city alive with pop up bars, cool girls and neon lights illuminating the Thames at night. At least this is what Lucy expects, having grown up seemingly a world away in...
by librarians | Feb 7, 2020 | Curated collections, Our recommendations
Part love letter to his adopted home city of Manchester, part critique of the arts and governing bodies (both specific and societal), Gerry’s eighth collection of autobiographical, domestic/fantastic theatre-verse is a socio-political, hard-hittin’...
by librarians | Feb 7, 2020 | Curated collections, Our recommendations
Amelia Scott is a young woman trying to re-build her life in Southern England following a disastrous relationship. It was going to be an adventure, but when there’s news of a young girl found dead and another goes missing, she quickly begins to learn there is...
by librarians | Feb 7, 2020 | Curated collections, Our recommendations
Set in the present day in an unnamed city in the North of England the book tells the story of a café owner and ex-journalist Luke Greenwood whose life goes into freefall when Selena, his wife of 31 years, leaves him for a much younger man. It is – loosely – based on...
by librarians | Feb 7, 2020 | Curated collections, Our recommendations
Shirley May’s She Wrote Her Own Eulogy takes the reader on a journey, the landscape of Kent and Manchester brought to vibrancy via Jamaica. It is a twisting road, the displaced lives making new communities on strange soil, the stories kept and told and shared....
