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Have You Had Your CAKE?

June 18, 2012

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In anticipation of International Short Story Day on Wednesday, new Manchester-based short story magazine CAKE held their first, and hopefully not last, meetup at Nexus Art Cafe on Saturday. Regular visitors to the blog will know that Nexus hold a ‘Northern’ Book Group every month, so an event of this nature was naturally right up […]

Nexus Book Group #6: Automated Alice – Jeff Noon

May 29, 2012

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I’m dipping back in time slightly to cover the April and May meetings of the Nexus Book Group this week in anticipation of their reading of Best Manchester Poets on Tuesday evening. April’s meeting saw a sidestep away to a enchanting modern day ‘trequel’ to Alice in Wonderland. Trying to retrieve her Great Aunt’s parrot […]

Nexus Book Group #5: Once in a House on Fire – Andrea Ashworth

March 7, 2012

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For the fifth in Nexus Book Group’s book discussions, the group tackled, on a recommendation, Andrea Ashworth’s haunting memoir ‘Once in a House on Fire’. In it, we relive her violent childhood. Her birth father drowned when she was five, then Andrea, and her two sisters encounter a succession of abusive stepfathers whilst the families […]

Two – LIVE!

February 14, 2012

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Following on from Nexus Book Group’s reading of Two by Jim Cartwright, we went on a group excursion to the Royal Exchange to see Justin Moorhouse and Victoria Elliott perform it! For more about the actual play itself, please refer to my earlier review here. Two is a very low key play, with only the […]

Nexus Book Group #4: Two by Jim Cartwright

February 8, 2012

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For the fourth in Nexus Book Group’s meets about Northern writers/novels, the group read Two by Jim Cartwright, which neatly happens to be playing at the Royal Exchange at the moment. This review contains plot spoilers.  Two is a pretty barebones play, only two actors playing all the characters in a stage with minimal setting […]

Nexus Book Club #3: Love on the Dole – Walter Greenwood

January 23, 2012

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Manchester based Nexus Arts Cafe has been running a ‘Northern’ Book Group since late in 2011 – much like a usual book club, with added tea and biscuits, their only caveat is that all their works they examine are ‘Northern’. Kicking off with ‘A Kestrel for a Knave‘, attention for the January meeting turned to Love on […]

A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines

January 16, 2012

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Chosen as the first book for Nexus Book Group‘s “Northern” Book Group way back in December, “A Kestrel for a Knave” follows young Billy Casper at a pivotal point in his life as he prepares to leave school, but in doing so finds and rears a young kestrel.. Unlike most of the group, I found […]

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