Gritstone Publishing Cooperative celebrates its 10th birthday in 2026. Co-founder Andrew Bibby charts the journey.

Designer Molly Sellars, who is based in Cumbria, talks to Northern Soul about turning festival tents into fashion.

Here Where You Are Standing is at the modernist in Manchester until February 28, 2026. For more information, click here.

Brighter Still, a performance in Bingley’s Myrtle Park, marks the longest night of the year and the culmination of Bradford’s ...

As we approach the end of 2025, we’re looking back at the things that have brought us immense comfort during the year. For the team at Northern Soul, books were once again a source of great joy, and ...

When I was a teenager and discovered poetry, I dreamed that, one day, I would run the first poetry-only bargain bookshop. I was going to call it ‘Ezra Poundland’. Sadly, despite my love of a good pun, ...

Lost Souls, the debut album by Cheshire trio Doves, was released 25 years ago. That quarter of a century has been a hell of a ride for the band, made up of brothers Andy and Jez Williams and frontman ...

Returning to Manchester’s O2 Ritz after more than two decades carries its own charge. The street is famous now, polished by memory and tourism, but once felt darker, riskier, electric with possibility ...

Scour the country. Nay, the universe. Pay what you will and marvel at the exquisite professionalism and expensive production values of the priciest extravaganza. You will not find a Christmas show ...

The weather outside was frightful. But Aladdin, Sheffield Lyceum’s 2025 pantomime, was delightful, so much so that my five-year-old asked to see it again, before we’d even left the theatre. We’d just ...

We are now in peak panto time, so Sergei Prokoviev’s L’Amour des Trois Oranges (The Love for Three Oranges) is a ripe choice for the RNCM’s winter opera offering. This is parody: comic stuff with ...