Tag: UK

  • A visitor from The North at The House of Commons

    Erotic fiction doesn’t get more forensic than this; as Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham get on top of the detail (and each other)…

  • Little Donkey

    She arrived in Westminster for work experience with Boris Johnson, but she could never have imagined where she’d end up with Keir Starmer…

  • Independent publishers fear “no-deal Brexit disaster”

    Independent publishers in the UK fear they could be forced to close as a no-deal Brexit pushes tight publishing margins into the red

  • Behind the scenes at Newark Book Festival

    Changing pen colour daily, playing Glastonbury, working in graveyards: authors at Newark Book Festival share how they really write their books in conversations with Ellen Lavelle

  • 7 shows to see at Edinburgh Fringe 2019

    This summer, thousands of shows, actors, directors, writers, musicians and other creatives descending upon the streets of Edinburgh for the world famous Fringe festival. As a collective of creatives, this very much feels like our sort of jam – the diversity of artistic talent on display is enough to make your creative tastebuds start salivating…

  • Mark Gillis has been combining writing, performing and directing since his university days (where he studied Biochemistry). As an actor, he has worked extensively in the theatre, most recently playing Agrippa in Antony & Cleopatra with Kim Cattrall and Michael Pennington (Chichester). As a member of the RSC he performed in As You Like It, Macbeth…

  • Across the UK, people are turning famous British red telephone boxes into micro libraries – casual book exchanges where there is no registration, and no fines. Anyone is free to take home a book, provided they bring it back or replace it with another. It’s a novel, if simple idea, and one that has sprung…

  • As the unstable and chaotic conservative government of the UK stumbles ineptly toward a ‘no-deal’ Brexit, UK citizens have recently been given assurances that there will be “adequate food to eat” in the event that the UK leaves the European Union in the style of so many drunken British louts after a Thursday night at…

  • Big news, everyone! The team here at NITRB are thrilled to announce we had the honour of making a special guest appearance on the fabulous Extra Secret Podcast. Always keen to build bridges with fellow creatives around the world, this cross-Atlantic collaboration opportunity was far too good to miss. In the ESP’s 99th episode, NITRB drop…

  • On Thursday 8th June, UK citizens will go to the polling booths for the third time in three years to vote in an election they did not ask for, called by a Government that has systematically eroded public services, damaged the country’s creative and artistic industries, caused the stagnation of wages for all but the…