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Do or Die Poets Facilitator Miggy Angel on New Book Extreme Violets
Wed 05 Sept 2018Originally from South London, poet, performer, and drug and alcohol worker Miggy Angel is a long-term resident of Hoodtown and the author of two poetry books, Grime Kerbstone Psalms and Extreme Violets. We hollered at him to see what he’s up to at the moment...
101 Beads Shows the Kurdistan War in Pictures
Thu 16 Aug 2018Kurdish native, Gaylan Nazhad, spent two years on the frontline, taking photographs and learning the stories of those displaced from the regional war between Kurdistan and ISIS. Gaylan resides in Nottingham where he is a filmmaker, photographer and the owner of a barber shop on Derby Road. With help from anthropologist Ben Houghton, he’s put together a book of his photography, 101 Beads: Kurdistan in War, which shares some bleak truths from his experiences on the frontline…
6 Nottingham Books to Read This Summer
Mon 16 Jul 2018Surely you must be in need of a beach side read. Give one of these a try...
5 Notts Albums to Listen to This July
Thu 12 Jul 2018Some banging albums from the best bands Notts has to offer...
5 Notts Albums to Listen to This June
Tue 26 Jun 2018Some cracking offerings from some top dollar Notts musicians...
5 Notts Albums to Listen to This May
Wed 30 May 2018Some of the city's musical fruits, brought to you by our task force of reviewers...
Doing the Bookshop Hop at Nottingham Poetry Festival
Fri 27 Apr 2018A dazzling evening of new connections and resonant readings at two of Nottingham’s thriving bookshops, Blackwell’s and Five Leaves…
Theatre Review: The Jungle Book
Thu 19 Apr 2018I will fight any child who say they enjoyed this more than I did...
Lainy Malkani on Her Book Sugar, Sugar: Bittersweet Tales of Indian Migrant Workers
Mon 09 Apr 2018Dan Wright talks to Lainy Malkani about her first book Sugar, Sugar, the transition from journalist to novelist and how her cat helped her to overcome the loneliness of being a writer. Malkani offers advice to aspiring writers and reveals which of the stories in the book is her personal favourite…
Paul Sng on New Book Invisible Britain: Portraits
Tue 03 Apr 2018Invisible Britain: Portraits is a forthcoming photography book edited by filmmaker Paul Sng and co-curated by Chloe Juno and Laura Dicken, that will feature stories and portraits of individuals across the UK who have been impacted by austerity...
9 Notts Albums To Add To Your Playlist
Fri 23 Mar 2018Fill your tabs with some proper Notts glory...
6 Notts Books You Need To Read This Month
Wed 21 Mar 2018Back in January, we celebrated Nottingham’s literary prowess with a whole issue dedicated to the wordy goods that’ve come out of the city and its edges. In the same breath, together with UNESCO City of Literature, we asked your lot to review your favourite Nottingham books in a competition to win book tokens and a feature in this here rag.
The winners of said competition were Sue Barsby and Melanie Jane, the top two reviews on this here page. Check ‘em out in all their critiquing mastery, and remember: if you’re from Notts and want to get your pages poked, drop us a line on books@leftlion.co.uk...
9 Notts Albums You Need To Listen To
Fri 23 Feb 2018Our ravenous reviewers have devoured a whole heap of new music, and told us what they thought about it...
A Bookseller in Notts
Thu 18 Jan 2018The latest in our series takes a look behind the scenes in one of Nottingham's book shops...
Book Review Competition: Win a £25 Token and Get Published
Fri 05 Jan 2018We’ve teamed up with the UNESCO City of Literature squad to deliver a book review competition...
9 Nottingham Music Albums to Listen to This December
Mon 18 Dec 2017Some of the city's musical fruits, brought to you by our task force of reviewers...
Finding Headspace - Review of Making Headway's latest book launch
Sat 18 Nov 2017Living with a brain injury is a difficult and oftentimes raw experience. However, the writers and editors involved in the creation of the newest Global Words Press book Making Headway: Living with Brain Injury are willing to share their stories and inspire us all to live better and braver lives.
9 Nottingham Music Albums to Stuff in Your Lugholes
Fri 27 Oct 2017All the top tunes you could want for of an October in 2017...
The Raincoats 33 1/3 Book Launch at Rough Trade
Wed 25 Oct 2017Rough Trade hosts the launch of the 33 1/3 book on the eponymous debut album by The Raincoats. Author Jenn Pelly was joined by band members Ana da Silva and Gina Birch and friend of the band Shirley O'Loughlin who was at Rough Trade when they released the album...
Live Music Reviews: Priests Live at The Maze
Tue 24 Oct 2017With support from Nottingham's Slumb Party and Thick Syrup who made the journey from Leeds...
Man Alive! Readings from Man Booker Prize Shortlist at Lakeside Arts
Wed 11 Oct 2017This October, the best and brightest of the literary world will be celebrated in this year's Man Booker Prize 2017. We decided to head on down to Lakeside's Djanogly Theatre for a reading from some of this year's shortlisted authors.
9 Albums You Need To Listen To This Month
Wed 27 Sept 2017The latest releases from some of Notts best-loved musicians...
6 Books You Need To Read This Month
Thu 21 Sept 2017Cosy up by the fire and have a good read of one of these beauties...
Graham Caveney on Abusive Relationships, Alcoholism and His New Book
Wed 06 Sept 2017Graham Caveney had success in the nineties as a journalist for publications like NME, The Face, The Independent, and loads more. He moved on to writing biographies of beat writers Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, then he completely disappeared. Two decades later, he’s back with a book that looks at the abuse inflicted on him as a child, by a priest: The Boy with the Perpetual Nervousness: A Memoir of an Adolescence…