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6 Books to Read in 2019
Thu 17 Jan 2019These page-turners will give you a cracking start to the year...
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5 Albums to Listen to This Christmas Holiday
Thu 20 Dec 2018All the good stuff for your tabs from some cracking Notts musicians...
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4 Books From Notts Authors to Read This Christmas Holiday
Sun 09 Dec 2018There’s no time like Crimbo to get stuck into the printed pages of a new novel or poetry collection. The turkey’s roasting, the fire’s crackling and the wine’s mulling, giving you plenty of time to curl up in your stretchy trousers and prepare yourself for a feast of literary goodness…
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Art Works: Chantelle Arnold
Wed 21 Nov 2018Creator of the Bookish Plant Pots, Chantelle Arnold, had a chat with us abaht her works and her ever-growing plant collection...
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5 Albums to Listen to This November
Wed 07 Nov 2018All the good stuff for your tabs from some cracking Notts musicians...
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Photographer Emily Andersen on the Release of Her New Book and Photographing Celebrities
Thu 01 Nov 2018From photographing well-known artists, musicians, writers, directors and actors - including Helen Mirren, Bella Freud and Nico - to exhibiting at some of the world’s most prestigious galleries, Emily Andersen has forged a fascinating photography career. Carefully balancing her craft while lecturing part time at NTU, she has recently published her second book, entitled Portraits: Black & White. We caught up with Emily ahead of her book launch and exhibition at Bonington Gallery later this week…
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5 Notts Albums to Listen to This October
Fri 26 Oct 2018Listen to these lot to prepare yersen for a spot of trick-or-treatin'
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SOLD OUT: LeftLion 100 Covers Book
Wed 17 Oct 2018Celebrating the artwork and history of LeftLion magazine via the medium of our covers. Sorry but this item is now sold out.
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5 Notts Albums to Listen to This September
Thu 27 Sept 2018Wash out yer tabz and crank up these lot, as well as checkin' out the Nusic tip box...
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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...
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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…
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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...
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5 Notts Albums to Listen to This July
Thu 12 Jul 2018Some banging albums from the best bands Notts has to offer...
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5 Notts Albums to Listen to This June
Tue 26 Jun 2018Some cracking offerings from some top dollar Notts musicians...
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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...
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The Thompson Brothers on LeftLion's 100th Issue
Fri 27 Apr 2018Our favourite green grocers are well happy for us...
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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…
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Theatre Review: The Jungle Book
Thu 19 Apr 2018I will fight any child who say they enjoyed this more than I did...
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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…
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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...
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9 Notts Albums To Add To Your Playlist
Fri 23 Mar 2018Fill your tabs with some proper Notts glory...
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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 [email protected]...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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