✍️Writer from Leeds with bylines in Irish Times, LA Review of Books, TLS and many others.
🎧Curating the world’s most interesting writers on the Rippling Pages
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👨🏻⚕️Elsewhere, health researcher
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Liam Bishop
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If we only read books that are relatable to our environments, do we lose out on a window to a wider world?
Indeed, Stu returns to some of those early environments and writes about them in KESHED.
📗 I was asked to curate a selection of some of my favourite narrative non-fiction and personal essays for you to read and buy at The Hyde Park Book Club.
(I was asked to pick five but I couldn’t help picking an extra – read why below!)
You can also read more about my selections here
www.thestateofthearts.co.uk/features/the...
@lanre-bakare.bsky.social WE WERE THERE might not fall strictly into narrative non-fiction, but it’s a really important book that I love and features a ton of stuff about Leeds and other Northern cities.
And it is @leedslitfest.bsky.social after all…
These books are obviously about so much more than I’ve said here, and you can of course come and listen to me in conversation with Alice Hattrick
www.leedslitfest.co.uk/events/alice...
Otherwise, get down to HPBC and get reading!
🎡From @jencalleja.bsky.social _ playful and personal exploration of being a translator in FAIR @prototypepubs.bsky.social
📷To Hélène Giannecchini’s artful and poignant exploration of friendship and kinship (tr. Anna Moschivakis) @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
🤔Fellow Leeds-based writer @stuhennigan.bsky.social is here talking about how and why he turned to reading, and how books and literature were fundamental to him in developing empathy compassion and perspective.
We were talking about his novel KESHED @ortacpress.bsky.social
The idea of who or what is relatable also gets taken to task a little bit by Stu – it can be a tricky and restrictive view of reading and writing.
If we’re not doing that, why read at all?
Listen to the full episode here
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...
🌄To @noreenmasud.bsky.social love and psychology of the FLAT PLACES @vintagebooks.bsky.social
🏊♀️To Leanne Shapton’s beautiful book as an object SWIMMING STUDIES @dauntbookspub.bsky.social
✍️And my guest at @leedslitfest.bsky.social Alice Hattrick– a book I often find myself coming back to
