Northumbria University Press
Northumbria Press is the new dynamic imprint of Northumbria University Press created to appeal to a wide audience. With a particular emphasis on popular culture it is the home of modern vibrant books on music, photography, biography and travel.
Northumbria University Press remains an independent university press which has gained international recognition as a publisher of high quality, critically acclaimed titles. Under this imprint we shall continue to publish cultural studies, language and history titles.
Our aim is to provide a personal service to our authors, a real commitment to the books we publish and the highest professional standards throughout the whole publishing process.
We are proud to be the leading non-fiction publishing house in the north of England and count internationally-renowned authors and photographers such as Chris Steele-Perkins, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen and Bill Griffiths as colleagues and friends.
Latest Books
The Pitmen’s Requiem by Peter Crookston
£11.99 – (9781904794486)
The Pitmen's Requiem movingly relates the stories and the hardships of the
miners who worked in the Great Northern Coalfield. It tells, through
interviews and investigative reporting, how Robert Saint’s famous brass
band composition ‘Gresford’ – the Miners’ Hymn – became a requiem for
mining communities and their way of life.
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The Tin Ring by Zdenka Fantlová
£15.00 - (9781904794509)
This remarkable memoir tells the story of a young Czech-Jewish woman called Zdenka Fantlová who survived the hell of Nazi Germany’s extermination camps. The Tin Ring is an unforgettably moving tale of courage, love, tenacity, hope and humanity experienced by a girl who lived through the Holocaust – the most brutal and inhumane time in world history. See more
Byker Revisited: Portrait of a Community by Sirkka-Liisa
Konttinen
£30.00 - (9781904794424)
Forty years ago Finnish photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen came to Byker as a founder member of the Amber film and photography collective. Her photographs from the working class Tyneside terraced streets became an exhibition, book and film. See more
England My England by Chris Steele-Perkins
£30.00 - (9781904794387)
The award-winning Magnum photographer Chris Steele-Perkins presents a sweeping, unique record of what he thinks makes England truly English. In concentrating upon "everydayness and how that can be special" his candid camera unflinchingly records the absurdities, the pleasures and the tragedies of English life, invariably with wit and humour. See more
