Book enthusiasts, join us on Zoom to talk about Alex Niven’s lively and highly topical The North Will Rise Again.

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The North Will Rise Again:

By telling the story of the North in the last few decades, Alex goes in search of answers to some of the big questions at the forefront of British politics and society today, touching on live issues including the North/South divide, austerity, the impact of Brexit, the collapse of Labour’s ‘Red Wall’, and calls for regional devolution.

It covers the colourful adventures of its inhabitants, the expansiveness and optimism that defines Northern culture, and the recurrent sense of failure and despair that is at the heart of one of the West’s most impoverished regions.

Alex Niven:

Alex Niven is a writer from the north-east of England. He writes for the Guardian, Tribune and New Statesman. Currently a Lecturer in English Literature at Newcastle University, he helped to start the radical publisher Repeater Books in 2014.

You can find him on X at @Alex_Niven

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