Posts tagged Manchester

Arguably, crime writing in the North West begins with Manchester-born Thomas De Quincey’s 1827 essay ‘On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts’, which has heavily influenced murder mysteries from the early nineteenth century until the current day.

LibrarianJune 24, 2022Crime, crime writing, Dickens, Gaskell, North West Fiction, Victorian Crime, Manchester, Martin Edwards

Rewriting the North: Kate Charlesworth

I don’t remember knowingly reading, either as a child or as a young adult, specifically Northern writing, but for as long as I can remember I was always conscious of being northern, and that this was a Good Thing.

LibrarianJune 23, 2022LGBTQ+, Graphic Writing, Graphic novels, Kate Charlesworth, Darton, John Braine, Just William, Manchester, ManchesterYorkshire, Illustration, book illustration, Rewriting the North