![Review: Courttia Newland in conversation with Tina Gharavi: Screenwriting & Writing 'Small Axe'](http://archive.nclacommunity.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Screenshot-2021-05-28-at-16.18.10-470x140.png)
As a screenwriter, Courttia Newland has written episodes of Steve McQueen’s 2020 BBC series Small Axe: ‘Lovers Rock’ and ‘Red, White and Blue’. This event…
![Review: Jon McGregor, in conversation with Rachel Hewitt about 'Lean Fall Stand'](http://archive.nclacommunity.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Jon-McGregor-copy-470x140.jpg)
Award-winning novelist Jon McGregor returns with a stunning novel that mesmerizingly and tenderly unpicks the notion of heroism and explores the indomitable human impulse to…
![Review: Niven Govinden, in conversation with Preti Taneja, about 'Diary of a Film'](http://archive.nclacommunity.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Niven-Govinden-cr.-Dan-Lepard-copy-470x140.jpg)
Diary of a Film (Hachette, 2021) is a novel about cinema, flâneurs, and queer love – it is about the sometimes troubled, sometimes ecstatic creative…
![Review: Natasha Pulley in discussion with the NCLA on 'The Lost Future of Pepperharrow'](http://archive.nclacommunity.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/8446650-copy-470x140.jpg)
The Lost Future of Pepperharrow (Bloomsbury, 2020) is the extraordinary sequel to the award winning international bestseller, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, by Natasha Pulley…
![Review: PBS Spring Choice: Jen Hadfield and Rowan Ricardo Phillips in conversation with John Challis](http://archive.nclacommunity.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/PBS-11thMarch-1-470x140.jpg)
Review: PBS Spring Choice: Jen Hadfield and Rowan Ricardo Phillips in conversation with John Challis
PBS’s Spring Recommendation Living Weapon (Faber, 2021) is a love song to the imagination, a new blade of light homing in on our political moment….
![Review: Roger Clarke on 'A Natural History of Ghosts: 500 Years of Searching for Proof'](http://archive.nclacommunity.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Roger_Clarke-copy-470x140.jpg)
The 2012 book that offers a comprehensive yet welcoming history of the evolution of ghosts, A Natural History of Ghosts, saw Roger Clarke pose several questions…
![Review: Cal Flyn on 'Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape'](http://archive.nclacommunity.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Cal_Flyn-by-Rebecca-Marr-copy1-470x140.jpg)
At the start of the talk, Cal decided to take a short reading from the book itself, exploring a post-industrial city in New Jersey called…
![Review: Kerri Andrews on 'Wanderers: A History of Women Walking'](http://archive.nclacommunity.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/sddefault-470x140.jpg)
Walking, for many, may seem like an inclusive activity. People of any age, race, gender and sexuality can gather to tackle trails across the UK….
![A Writing Challenge from Rishi Dastidar](http://archive.nclacommunity.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/dastidar-470x140.jpg)
This writing challenge was created by Rishi Dastidar as part of the 2020 Inside Writing showcase. Please send your responses to ncenla@newcastle.ac.uk and we’ll publish…
!['Why translate? A response' - An essay by Clive Scott](http://archive.nclacommunity.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/generic-470x140.jpg)
Clive Scott is Professor Emeritus of European Literature at the University of East Anglia and, since 1994, a Fellow of the British Academy. He was…
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