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9 Albums You Have To Listen To This Month
Mon 14 Aug 2017With Yazmin Lacey, Little Barrie, Jimi Mack and more...
A Word With the Beasts Behind Wild Boar Books
Sat 12 Aug 2017New pigs on the block, Lincolnshire-based indie press Wild Boar Books, boast some proper weird, proper original releases. We thought we’d hit up our neighbours, and snorted in the direction of founders and editors Guy and Richard about the Midlands lit scene, gold star awards, and anti-establishment, porcine publishing...
Music Reviews: Russian Linesman, Hashtagobi, Stacey McMullen and more
Thu 03 Aug 2017Get your lugholes round this lot...
Book Reviews: Bum Apple Freak Show and Other Stories
Wed 02 Aug 2017Here, have some words about words...
The Jungle Book is Coming to Nottingham Lakeside Arts
Tue 11 Jul 2017In a collaboration between Nottingham Lakeside Arts and New Street Theatre, The Jungle Book is coming to town. True to the Kipling score, and definitely not Disney, the production has an awesome new musical makeup. We speak to director of the show Martin Berry about what to expect from the bogger...
Music Reviews: June 2017
Fri 07 Jul 2017With London Grammar, Tom McCartney, Widows, Sawyer, Minatore, Endless Grinning Skulls, Daudi Matsiko, Cameron Sinclair Harris and Arc Nade...
Five Leaves Bookshop Don't Know When Their Birthday Is
Wed 05 Jul 2017One of the highlights of Five Leaves Publications’ tenth anniversary was the argument between those present as to whether the anniversary was actually the eleventh or twelfth. We know for sure our twentieth anniversary was either 2015 or 2016. It certainly is not 2017. Either way, we forgot about it until LeftLion asked us what we’ve learned in two decades of publishing. What we’ve learned, is that we’re crap at anniversaries...
The Particle Beast book launch at the Nottingham Writer’s Studio
Thu 29 Jun 2017Nottingham based author, Ian Douglas, explores life on Mars in the third instalment of his teen sci-fi adventure. We headed down to the book launch at NWS, where Douglas spoke about what’s in store for Zeke Hailey in this gripping nigh-apocalyptic tale…
Young Books Run Wild: Celebrating 30 Days of British Wildlife Literature with the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust
Thu 01 Jun 2017Determined to get us bookworms out and about in the sunshine, the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust has launched a month-long campaign to review books about all things wild.
Music Reviews: May
Fri 26 May 2017With Alice Short, Alec Bowman, Ben McElroy, Brooders, Crimson General, Fonzse, Gallery 47, Jum and I'm Not From London...
From Vilnius to Viccy Centre: Celebrating Lithuanian Literature At The Easiest Launch
Tue 23 May 2017It's not often we get the chance to celebrate literature from further afield. Thankfully, Noir Press have brought the best and brightest of continent to us. We went to One BC for the launch of their latest Lithuanian dark romance The Easiest.
6 Books to get Stuck into This May
Sat 20 May 2017Books from Nottingham's finest, reviewed for your pleasure...
9 Notts Music Albums, Reviewed: Scorzayzee, Clay Shaped Boy, Damn Craters and more
Thu 06 Apr 2017If you're from Nottingham and you want your tunes reviewed, hit up leftlion.co.uk/sendusmusic...
9 Notts Music Albums to Tickle your Tabs
Wed 22 Mar 2017We review the latest music albums born in Nottingham
Notts Artist Video Mat on Writing a Book About His Indian Adventure
Thu 16 Mar 2017We spoke to the man behind White Dolemite about his upcoming novel A Honky's Journey Through Chaos...
World Book Day Quiz
Thu 02 Mar 2017It's World Book Day! To celebrate we've put this quiz together to work out how much you know about Nottingham Literature
Five Leaves Shortlisted for Independent Bookshop of the Year
Wed 01 Mar 2017Five Leaves Bookshop, Nottingham's radical and independent seller of paged goods, is on the shortlist for the regional round of the UK and Ireland Independent Bookshop of the Year Award, for the second year running. Gerrin.
10 Notts Music Albums to Tickle Your Tabs This February
Mon 20 Feb 2017If you're from Notts and want your tunes reviewed, go to leftlion.co.uk/sendusmusic
14 Music Albums to Stuff in Your Tabs
Fri 13 Jan 2017If you're from Nottingham and you'd like your tunes reviewed, drop us a line at music@leftlion.co.uk
4 Books To Read Over The Festive Period
Mon 02 Jan 2017One year ago, Nottingham became a UNESCO City of Literature. Since then, creative writing courses have been closed down, the DH Lawrence Heritage Centre has been sold off, and the fate of the Central Library lies in the hands of a property developer. Offsetting this is the Festival of Literature, the Line of Light installation on Station Street and, most importantly of all, the authors who keep banging out beautiful books...
Graphic Novel Dawn of the Unread Book Launch at Antenna
Mon 28 Nov 2016The Nottingham book – packed full of zombies and local literary figures – has defied all norms and transformed from an online graphic novel to a printed version. We got down to the book launch at Antenna on Beck Street, where our literature editor and Dawn of the Unread creator spoke about our city's history as well as what we need to get heads in pages...
The Diary of a Nottingham Man in Hong Kong
Mon 14 Nov 2016Nottingham’s best travelled writer, Ben Zabulis, discovers a culture so obsessed with reading they queue up overnight for the Hong Kong Book Festival…
Katie Half-Price Reviews George Monbiot's Latest Book
Thu 10 Nov 2016Nottingham's orangest reviewer tells us what's up with How Did We Get into this Mess? Politics, Equality, Nature...
6 Nottingham Books to Curl Up with this November
Tue 01 Nov 2016If you don’t have time to read these books, visit Karlsruhe Friendship Bridge, Station Street, and read Jo Fairfax's selection of one-line poems for the Line of Light exhibition...