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He’s the author fighting for the north’s history to be heard | Booky podcast

Welcome to episode four of Booky brought to you by National World - the publisher of your favourite local news brands from the Lancashire Post to the Edinburgh Evening News to London World.

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I’m Nicola Adam and this is  the first series of your new friendly snob free podcast for chatting to authors of all genres about writing, reading, and the high and lows of their careers. It’s available across all of your favourite pod providers - you can access right here.

You can also listen to previous episodes here:

So far on this series we’ve chatted to the wonderful best-selling  romantic fiction author Milly Johnson, to children’s and young adult author Jo Nadin and to crime and thriller author Will Carver. 

Now we are taking a journey into non fiction, or rather northern history, with journalist turned writer Brian Groom.

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His first book Northerners: A History, from the Ice Age to the Present Day, was published in April 2022 by HarperNorth and became a national bestseller. His  second book Made in Manchester: A People’s History of the City that Shaped the Modern World, is due out in May and available to pre-order.

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