'We're all losers in life in some way,' Aubrey Malone contends in this memoir, 'but that's what m...

X is called for an interview, though he has applied for no job. Invited to a waiting room, he fin...

This is the final part of Aubrey Malone's Ballina trilogy.It sees him expanding his orbit from hi...

'Ken Champion used tocraft elegant narrative verse before turning his considerable talent to the ...

In this twelfth collection of essays and reviews Jim Burns looks back to the 1930s and the proble...

Following on from Ivan's account of his escape from his native Hungary and subsequent triumph in ...

In an editorial to issue 9 the magazine's place and purpose was defined:'Voices' we believe has a...

THE AUTHOR of this book (1907-1944) was perhaps the greatest poet of the Holocaust, a Jewish Cath...

Voices, the Manchester based magazine of working class writing, ran for 31 issues between 1972 an...

Jeff Bell's debut poetry book, has had poems published in various magazines and websites which ca...

Brian Kilcoyne finds it difficult to cope with the death of his mother. His father is an alcoholi...

It's difficult to get away from Paris when writing about art, and several reviews in this collect...

'Ken Champion's Future Tense is a novel of ideas brought to life by a cast of characters struggli...

Urban living involves a daily onslaught of advertisements, corporate art, and mass-mediated popul...

Keith Howden continues to evoke the passions and memories associated with his lifelong contact wi...

Tanner's latest hilarious collection describes the horrors of retail shopwork. These oppressed tr...

In its readiness to listen in on the speech of a wide variety of ordinary, working people, and to...

A series of poems based on the Arthurian legend with illustrations by the author

Now the last of Delia Meade's many children have married and moved away, she decides to tidy up t...

Poems about life and landscapes of the Pennine towns of Lancashire

Aubrey Malone's memoir begins with him entering life as the youngest of nine children born to Hug...

The Mackon Country is Martin Keaveney's second novel. His debut novel Delia Meade was published i...

This is volume 8 (the last) of Dent's roman fleuve The Caxton Langs.

Then And Us demonstrates how Champion can produce a novel with a natural, very 'real' style, comp...

This new collection from Mark Ward selects work from his two previouscollections Thunder Alley an...

Gus Watt has gotten into a bit of a fix. Over the course of 24 hours he is introduced to the woma...

A vulgar trip into the mock heroic: anentertainment from the years after the Second World War.

The collected poems 1962-2007 by north west poet and critic Jim Burns

The search for love in its various forms is the theme of this collection of stories. It focuses m...

Two plays about financial goings on in the oil industry.The world is run by the rich. Their influ...

Be my servantSoul Gnome in your salamander planetbe Jack the Lad, be Jack in the Greenbe Jumping ...

This book contains reviews submitted to the Northern Review of Books website during 2021 and 2022...

I began writing these blogs in 2013 and continued with it sporadically over the next six years, d...

I began writing these blogs in 2013 and continued with it sporadically over the next six years, d...

Schoolboy is Martin Keaveney's fifth book. It follows the novels Delia Meade (2020) and The Macko...

The rain adding its dreary greyness to the monotonous swishing of the windscreen wipers, joined n...

Singsong is Martin Keaveney's sixth book. It follows the novels Schoolboy (2023),Delia Meade (202...

It has proved difficult to separate the usually melodramatically rendered life from a creative ac...

To this day-by-day account of the events in Gaza since 7th October 2023 the author adds the comme...

The French have an expression called l'esprit de l'escalier - the spirit of the staircase. It ref...

Did you know that Brendan Behan once taught his cat to do an IRA salute? Or that he went into tow...

Aubrey Malone grew up in Teeling Street - then Arthur Street - in Ballina in the fifties. He atte...

Tom Hanks once said he couldn't give a speech to save his life.Bereft of the fed line, his confid...