by librarians | Oct 29, 2020 | Curated collections, Portico Prize shortlist 2019
Best known for her classic black comedy Rita, Sue and Bob Too, Andrea Dunbar wrote three plays before dying at a tragically young age. This new literary portrayal features a cast of real and imagined characters set against the backdrop of the infamous Buttershaw...
by librarians | Feb 7, 2020 | Curated collections, Portico Prize shortlist 2019
Carved from the land above Mytholmroyd in West Yorkshire, Scout Rock is a steep crag overlooking wooded slopes and weed-tangled plateaus. To many it is unremarkable; to others it is a doomed place where 18th-century thieves hid out, where the town tip once sat, and...
by librarians | Feb 7, 2020 | Curated collections, Portico Prize shortlist 2019
Graham Caveney was born in 1964 in Accrington: a town in the north of England, formerly known for its cotton mills, now mainly for its football team. Armed with his generic Northern accent and a record collection including the likes of the Buzzcocks and Joy Division,...
by librarians | Feb 7, 2020 | Curated collections, Portico Prize shortlist 2019
Best known for her classic black comedy Rita, Sue and Bob Too, Andrea Dunbar wrote three plays before dying at a tragically young age. This new literary portrayal features a cast of real and imagined characters set against the backdrop of the infamous Buttershaw...
by librarians | Feb 7, 2020 | Curated collections, Portico Prize shortlist 2019
Midwinter. As former farmhand Jake, a widower in his seventies, wanders the beautiful, austere moors of North Yorkshire trying to evade capture, we learn of the events of his past: the wife he loved and lost, their child he knows cannot be his, and the deep-seated...
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...
