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Review: Courttia Newland in conversation with Tina Gharavi: Screenwriting & Writing 'Small Axe'

Review: Courttia Newland in conversation with Tina Gharavi: Screenwriting & Writing ‘Small Axe’

May 26, 2021
by ncla
Text

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…

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Review: Jon McGregor, in conversation with Rachel Hewitt about 'Lean Fall Stand'

Review: Jon McGregor, in conversation with Rachel Hewitt about ‘Lean Fall Stand’

May 23, 2021
by ncla
Text

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…

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Review: Niven Govinden, in conversation with Preti Taneja, about 'Diary of a Film'

Review: Niven Govinden, in conversation with Preti Taneja, about ‘Diary of a Film’

May 13, 2021
by ncla
Text

Diary of a Film (Hachette, 2021) is a novel about cinema, flâneurs, and queer love – it is about the sometimes troubled, sometimes ecstatic creative…

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Review: Natasha Pulley in discussion with the NCLA on 'The Lost Future of Pepperharrow'

Review: Natasha Pulley in discussion with the NCLA on ‘The Lost Future of Pepperharrow’

May 6, 2021
by ncla
Text

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…

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Review: PBS Spring Choice: Jen Hadfield and Rowan Ricardo Phillips in conversation with John Challis

Review: PBS Spring Choice: Jen Hadfield and Rowan Ricardo Phillips in conversation with John Challis

March 22, 2021
by ncla
Text

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….

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Review: Roger Clarke on 'A Natural History of Ghosts: 500 Years of Searching for Proof'

Review: Roger Clarke on ‘A Natural History of Ghosts: 500 Years of Searching for Proof’

March 12, 2021
by ncla
Text

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…

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Review: Cal Flyn on 'Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape'

Review: Cal Flyn on ‘Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape’

March 3, 2021
by ncla
Text

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…

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Review: Kerri Andrews on 'Wanderers: A History of Women Walking'

Review: Kerri Andrews on ‘Wanderers: A History of Women Walking’

February 19, 2021
by ncla
Text

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….

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A Writing Challenge from Rishi Dastidar

A Writing Challenge from
Rishi Dastidar

July 23, 2020
by ncla
Text, Video

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…

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'Why translate? A response' - An essay by Clive Scott

‘Why translate? A response’
– An essay by Clive Scott

July 16, 2020
by ncla
Text

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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