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We Speak to Festival Booker Joe Patten Ahead of This Year’s Beat the Streets
Sat 27 Jan 2024Tomorrow, Beat the Streets Festival will return to the streets of Nottingham. We spoke to festival booker Joe Patten to gain his perspective on the festival’s continued success since 2018...
Music Reviews: January 2024
Fri 26 Jan 2024This month, we review music from Simon Waldram, Airport Dad, Pretty Windows, Chloe Rodgers, Penny Moon, 1st Blood and Armton...
Toussaint Louverture: the Story Of the Only Successful Slave Revolt In History, an Illustrated Talk
Thu 25 Jan 2024American Poets In Britain, a Reading by Jason Schneiderman, Kathryn Maris and Dante Micheaux
Tue 16 Jan 2024Preview: American Poets at Five Leaves Bookshop
Sat 13 Jan 2024As some of the USA's best poetic minds come to perform in Notts, we learn about what we can look forward to...
Music Reviews: December 2023
Sat 16 Dec 2023This month, we review new tunes from Emily Ashberry, PASTE., Catmilk, The Cost of Loving, Baby Tap, and Michael Vickers...
We Chat to Author Nick Emm About His Neurodiverse New Book
Tue 12 Dec 2023Like fingerprints, no two brains are exactly the same. Nottingham author Nick Emm's new book for young readers, Jude and the First of the Nine, is a fantastically realised tale that celebrates all the different ways in which we think. We sat down with the man himself to hear about his journey...
Late Light, With Michael Malay… an Illustrated Talk On Moths, Eels, Libraries, the Economy and the Links Between Them
Thu 07 Dec 2023We Chat to Author Rebecca Buxton All About Her New Book ‘Prickelus Gets Caught’
Mon 04 Dec 2023Full of hedgehog related activities, recipes, advice and storytelling, Prickelus Gets Caught is a delightful book for children and adults, written and illustrated by Nottingham author Rebecca Buxton. We caught up with Rebecca to find out about her inspirations and what the process of writing is like as a deaf, dyslexic and autistic person…
Pamphlet Launch: North by Northnorth – Elvire Roberts, and the Stories In Between – Teresa Forrest
Tue 28 Nov 2023We Chat to Author Nicola Monaghan to Discuss Her New Book 'Wish You Were Here'
Fri 24 Nov 2023We caught up with Nicola Monaghan, author of The Killing Jar, Starfishing and The Okinawa Dragon, to discuss becoming a writer, crafting detective novels and her new book Wish You Were Here…
Book Review: Umbilical by Teika Marija Smits
Fri 24 Nov 2023Since local author Teika Marija Smits' new book Umbilical landed on the LeftLion desk, we’ve found it difficult to keep our feet on the ground...