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A farmer ends up in a wheelchair after a car crash that results in his wife's death. His son's relationship to him is complicated by a woman who comes into his life and lives with him for a time. He has conflicted feelings towards her and towards his sister, a nun who works in a hospital in Nebraska. These are exacerbated when he goes to London to work, discovering new sides to himself in the city's freewheeling ambience. This is a novel abou...

An anthology of sayings and epigrams on literature

Schoolboy is Martin Keaveney's fifth book. It follows the novels Delia Meade (2020) and The Mackon Country (2021), a novella, Caravan (2022) and a short story collection, The Rainy Day (2018), all published by Penniless Press. Stage and screen credits include Ireland's national broadcaster RTE and Scripts Ireland Playwriting Festival. He has a PhD in Creative Writing and Textual Studies. Scholarship has been published widely, including at the ...

I began writing these blogs in 2013 and continued with it sporadically over the next six years, during which time I relocated from Grasmere to Blackburn. It's been a period of great political and social upheaval, but I wanted to focus on the human aspect. The individuals, their lives, stories, favourite places and culinary skills. It was celebratory, a paean to England, its history, the land and the people. I've always found people who don't m...

I began writing these blogs in 2013 and continued with it sporadically over the next six years, during which time I relocated from Grasmere to Blackburn. It's been a period of great political and social upheaval, but I wanted to focus on the human aspect. The individuals, their lives, stories, favourite places and culinary skills. It was celebratory, a paean to England, its history, the land and the people. I've always found people who don't m...

The collected poems 1962-2007 by north west poet and critic Jim Burns

A vulgar trip into the mock heroic: an entertainment from the years after the Second World War.

Be my servant Soul Gnome in your salamander planet, be Jack the Lad, be Jack in the Green, be Jumping Jack in a quicksilver cosmos of arsenic, ammonia and brimstone. Be my necrotic juggler, conjure your waxy and poisonous valency to shape the warlock light the simple fear as the unfostered souls of stillborn children lost between Heaven's bulb and the Inferno's flame. PP

Two plays about financial goings on in the oil industry. The world is run by the rich. Their influence over government policy in the so-called democracies is far greater than the voters'. Elsewhere, there isn't even a pretence that aren't in control. They defy the law and are praised for it. They are embraced by politicians who claim to represent the people. Yet where are they in literature? In drama, the kitchen sink movement kicked off the t...

The search for love in its various forms is the theme of this collection of stories. It focuses mainly on lonely women looking for connections in unlikely places from unlikely people. Mary Mannion is a former legal secretary. She also writes children's stories.

This book contains reviews submitted to the Northern Review of Books website during 2021 and 2022 plus articles previously printed in The Crazy Oik magazine.

This new collection from Mark Ward selects work from his two previous collections Thunder Alley and The Visitor's Book, adding a substantial selection of new poems. Predominantly set in his hometown of Blackburn, it chronicles and collates the overlooked, the ordinary and the remarkable into a rich, compelling sequence of narrative poems.

Gus Watt has gotten into a bit of a fix. Over the course of 24 hours he is introduced to the woman of his dreams - twice. He is unable to let either down and negotiates the pressures of both relationships, leading to a series of events more tangled than the hawthorn bushes that surround his caravan in the woods. Caravan is Martin Keaveney's 4th book after The Rainy Day, Delia Meade and The Mackon Country.

Then And Us demonstrates how Champion can produce a novel with a natural, very 'real' style, complementing the touchingly brave and awkward not-so-long-ago world of young adulthood battling their own and class-divided emotions. With its setting and tonal range reminding one of Waugh - at times an almost anti-Brideshead Revisited - the dialogue, setting, and characters are so well-placed in their time, and Champion's more usual ideological pole...

This is volume 8 (the last) of Dent's roman fleuve The Caxton Langs.

The Mackon Country is Martin Keaveney's second novel. His debut novel Delia Meade was published in 2020 and followed a short story collection, The Rainy Day in 2018, both published by Penniless Press. Stage and screen credits include Ireland's national broadcaster RTE and Scripts Ireland Playwriting Festival. He has a PhD in Creative Writing and Textual Studies. Scholarship has been published widely, including at the New Hibernia Review, Journ...

Poems about life and landscapes of the Pennine towns of Lancashire

Aubrey Malone's memoir begins with him entering life as the youngest of nine children born to Hugh Dillon-Malone, a colourful solicitor, in Ballina in 1953. His life is a hubbub with lots of activity both inside and outside his family home of Norfolk. There are also his various 'homes from home' - the Estoria cinema, the soccer grounds of Belleek, the beach at the nearby town of Enniscrone. His family moved to Dublin in 1969 after his father r...

A series of poems based on the Arthurian legend with illustrations by the author

In its readiness to listen in on the speech of a wide variety of ordinary, working people, and to give us insights into the texture of their daily lives, Dent's writing is not merely unfashionable, it is like very little that is currently being written (or anyway published.) It does however remind me of that fine, scandalously neglected American writer, Nelson Algren. Like Algren, Dent's socialism, while never reductive, is integral to his vis...