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Nick is a brilliant writer who's contributions to thisisUll.com include food, theatre, books and music reviews alongside sports and articles. Nicks contributions are listed below.. Page 1, Page 2 No Sections:  7  No Items:  61 Album Reviews,Fiction,Food and Drink,Hull Truck,Music Reviews,People,Reviews

People - An Interview with Dave Windass By Nick Quantrill
	Nick Quantrill talks to Hull-based playwright, Dave Windass ... Nick : I know you've got your artistic fingers in different pies, but let's start with the obvious - tell me a bit about the plays you've had performed? Dave : This weird theatrical trip I've been on started back in 2003, when my preoccupations involved attempting to dismantle capitalism via the written word. This sort of led to a short piece called Store Me Whether, originally planned as a side swipe at large chain supermarkets Read more...

People - An Interview with Local Writer Richard Sutherland By Nick Quantrill
	Nick Quantrill talks to fellow Hull-writer, Richard Sutherland, about his new book. Nick : 'The Unitary Authority of Ersatz'...what's that all about? Tell me a bit about the book. Where did the title come from? Is this your first book? Richard : Well the title was a gradual decision. I basically wanted to create a world where all of the book's contents could take place, like my own version of Narnia or Oz. Read more...

People - An Interview with author Robert Endeacott By Nick Quantrill
	Robert Endeacott talks with Nick Quantrill about his new novel, DisRepute, which chronicles Don Revie's ill-fated spell as England manager, and picks up where his prior novel, Dirty Leeds finished... Nick : Congratulations on the publication of DisRepute - Revie's England. Is it a follow-up to Dirty Leeds? Tell me a bit about the book, what's the story? Read more...

People - An Interview with author Russ Litten By Nick Quantrill
	Russ Litten talks to fellow Hull author, Nick Quantrill, about his forthcoming novel ahead of their appearance at the launch of the 2010 Humber Mouth programme on June 27th at Pave, Princes Avenue. Nick : Congratulations on signing the deal with Random House for Scream If You Want To Go Faster. Tell me a little bit about the book - what's the story? Read more...

Reviews, Books - Broken Dreams by Nick Quantrill Reviewed by Tim Roux
	Over the last couple of years, Nick Quantrill has made an enviable reputation for himself as a highly accomplished true-to-the-gospels (of St. Elmore Leonard and St. Raymond Chandler) crime fiction writer who reliably delivers precisely crafted plots, authentic hardboiled dialogue and classic PI fisticuffs action. His tales are suffused with an atmosphere of compounding tension Read more...

Fiction - All The Fun Of The Fair By Nick Quantrill Photographs by Darren Rogers

	Jimmy held his hand out to the old man lying in a bed of wet cardboard boxes. 'Help you up, there?' The old man took the hand. 'Good on you, son.' Jimmy took the strain and pulled. 'No problem. You might want to get your face looked at, though.' The old man took a tissue out of his pocket and wiped the blood from his nose. 'Don't worry about me, I'll be fine.' He laughed and wiped his hands on his trousers. 'So who are you, then?' 'Jimmy.' 'New around here?' 'First time.' 'Thought so.' Read more...

Fiction - Side Orders - A Joe Geraghty Story By Nick Quantrill

	'Ahmet's paranoid, man.' I turned to Darren and shrugged. Ignoring him, I continued looking out of the car window and into the Hull night, the city flashing by. 'You've been robbed twice this week' I said. It had just turned midnight. People were staggering home, the streets slowly emptying, but plenty of drunks still wanted their fix of fast food. 'Bad luck, Joe. That's all. It happens.' Darren laughed. 'It's cool to have a bodyguard, though.' 'I guess so.' It'd make a good story down the pub, if nothing else. Read more...

Album Reviews - Horse Guards Parade 'EP' (Download from iTunes) By Nick Quantrill
	Formed by former Salako front-man, James Waudby, Horse Guards Parade are one of Hull's hidden treasures. Describing themselves as 'psychedelic anti-folk', this debut EP is, as you might expect, a mixed bag of sounds and ideas. Lead track, As The Plane Lifted Its Wheels is a galloping number which sounds like the soundtrack to a fight in an old country and western movie. Read more...

Single Reviews - Henry Priestman - The Chronicles of Modern Life (Island Records) By Nick Quantrill
	Quietly released on Stiff Records last year, the buzz around Henry Priestman's debut album has been steadily building over the last few months and rightly so. It's been a long time out of the limelight for the former member of The Christians, but the wait has been worthwhile. Dismissed by some press as a grumpy old man, nothing could be further from the Read more...

Reviews, Books - The Dance of the Pheasodile by Tim Roux (Upfront Publishing) Reviewed by Nick Quantrill
	With his sixth novel, Hull native Tim Roux, is certainly one of the city's most prolific writers. A committed champion of all things East Yorkshire, the publication of his crime story, The Dance of The Pheasodile is his well deserved opportunity to take the limelight. With a fulfilling job, a successful wife and two beautiful children, Keith McGuire leads an idyllic middle-class life in the south of England. Read more...

Reviews, Books - How Not To Manage by Adam Kirkman and Daniel Mayhew (Quick Brown Fox Publications) Reviewed by Nick Quantrill
	Think you're a great manager? Think you know how to get the best out of people whilst increasing your personal performance and worth? Think again - you can be better - it's simply a matter of attitude. If this all sounds a bit too much like hard word, fear not, this new spoof management manual from York's Adam Kirkman and Daniel Mayhew is here to Read more...

Album Reviews - The Jim Muir Slideshow - ...And With the Fading of the Light' (A Tomorrows World Industry) By Nick Quantrill
	Some things are worth waiting for, and for those paying attention it has been a lengthy wait for this album. Having quietly released a string of critically acclaimed EPs, the Jim Muir Slideshow disappeared from public view. Compiling these releases, and aided by some freshening up, the EPs are transformed into a debut full-length release Read more...

Music Reviews - Stereophonics & Tim Burgess Hull Arena 10/11/2003.
	By Nick Quantrill I'm not quite sure why I was actually at the gig in the first place. I think it was the fact the gig was actually in Hull. With Hull suffering from an acute shortage of larger venues, you kind of get accustomed to either travelling around the country to see bands or catching them at small venues on their way up or sometimes down. Read more...

Music Reviews - Riley and The Landau's - Hull University 16th February 04 By Nick Quantrill
	As any keen reader of this website will know, one of the bands who have been getting consistently great reviews is Riley. So Cilla rings me and says; Get yourself down to the university and review them. We love Riley at thisisUll.com (only more politely of course!). How could I refuse this kamikaze mission?! It was the first time I've been to a gig.. Read more...

Reviews, Books - Pleading Guilty by Paul Genney (Dedalus Books) Reviewed by Nick Quantrill
	On the face of it, Henry Wallace, barrister in Hull's Whitebait Chambers, has it all. A well paying job and a comfortable life, but when solicitor's runner, Pauline Dawson, enters his life, everything changes. Overcome with the pressures of a changing work place and his growing lust, Wallace starts to overheat. Feeling guilty and angry, his relationship with Read more...

Fiction - Lessons Learnt By Nick Quantrill
	DS Richard Coleman pulled into the lay-by and headed towards the flashing blue lights. An hour later it would have been someone else's problem. But it wasn't. An articulated lorry had been isolated from the other vehicles, cones placed around it, linked together by barrier tape. A mobile generator providing power to the small floodlights Read more...

Reviews, Books - Daniel Mayhew - Life and How to Live it (White Horse Publications) Reviewed By Nick Quantrill
	Writing successful novels about music or bands is a notoriously difficult thing to do, and something that rarely succeeds. Step forward Daniel Mayhew to prove the exception to the rule with his debut, which tells the tale of Serpico, the band formed by flatmates, Reilly and Jacob, and the adventure that ensues when Reilly takes a week off work sick, and binging Read more...

Fiction - Merry Christmas, Here's A Present By Nick Quantrill
	Brett 'Razor' Rawcliffe; 'Razor' to his friends because they thought he was sharp as a tack. He was 16 years old but he'd already built a rapidly expanding drugs empire specialising in supplying his schoolmates and friends. It was one day away from being Christmas Eve and he was sat in a city centre pub with his trusted side-kick, Stevie. The Christmas CD compilation Read more...

Reviews, Books - Mark Frankland The Long and Winding Road to Istanbul (Glenmill Books) Reviewed By Nick Quantrill
	It's 1977 and Liverpool FC are set to compete in their first European Cup final. For football crazy 13 year old Mickey McGuire it's the night of his life. Elder brother, Frank has different plans, as he starts working his way up the criminal career ladder alongside local hard-man and minor criminal, Eddie Tate. Volunteering his brother for a Tate job, Mickey is introduced to Eddie's sister Read more...

Fiction - Cinch Hand By Nick Quantrill
	Joe Berry, Private Investigator. That always grabs the attention. I'm a PI, but it's not as exciting as it sounds. No way. I say that with confidence as I stare out of the window of my detective agency into the overcast Hull night. That's right, Hull - the jewel in the crown of East Yorkshire. It's not a glamorous city, but it's where I lay my hat and I've just about scraped a living from Read more...

Album Reviews - Last Gang - Beat of Blue (48 Crash Records - Limited edition 7" vinyl and download) - Reviewed By Nick Quantrill Release Date : 30th October 06
	If you like your guitar-pop with a bit of kick and bite, then you could do a lot worse than to check out one of Yorkshire's best kept secrets. It's taken a while for this debut release to materialize, but the slow and steady approach looks set to pay dividends, especially now that influential figures in the music industry such as Steve Lamacq are beginning to Read more...

Reviews, Books - The Damned United By David Peace Reviewed By Nick Quantrill
	This latest work from Yorkshire born Peace is another slice of his distinctive style that combines fact with fiction to boil down the story to its true essence. Previously tackling the Yorkshire Ripper investigation in his Red Riding quartet, and the miners' strike in GB84, this time Peace turns his attention to Brian Clough's turbulent 44 day reign of Leeds United Read more...

Fiction - End Of The Line By Nick Quantrill
	This is how it happened... I was driving down Lowgate. There's got to be a better way than this, I thought to myself. But then I saw her, clinging to a lamppost, holding her hand out as her friend tried to stop her from falling over. I indicated and pulled over; she would do nicely. Her friend bundled her into my car. No respect for anything, least of all herself, I thought Read more...

Reviews, Books - The Night Gardener By George Pelecanos Reviewed By Nick Quantrill (Available 10th August)
	The 14th novel from George Pelecanos, The Night Gardener sees him weave an ambitious story that aims to lift him up and beyond the conventions of the crime-fiction genre. Pelecanos has never flinched away from tackling difficult social issues, and his remit here is to take a broad look at how crime touches the lives of those outside of its direct consequences, Read more...

Single Reviews - Ricky We Are England (Beatcrazy Records) By Nick Quantrill
	This unofficial World Cup 2006 track was going to be the record that propelled Ricky into the big time, and kick-started a career for the band that already had promised much. Add in that the band clocked up in excess of 25,000 miles traveling the length and breadth of the country recording over 50,000 school children chanting the popular Easy Read more...

Fiction - Punishment By Nick Quantrill
	Punishment by local crime-fiction writer and thisisull.com contributor, Nick Quantrill, has won a nationwide short-story competition run by HarperCollins. Entrants were invited to submit a story of no more than 1,000 words in the crime-fiction/thriller genre. Here's what the judges had to say about Punishment : 'We were impressed with the use of Read more...

Fiction - Friday Feeling By Nick Quantrill
	Friday 3pm It was building up to being another busy Friday afternoon shift. It was probably no busier than any other shift, but the extra tiredness that Detective Constable Maynard felt by this point made them feel that much longer. He had been sent to Young's general store in East Hull straight after attending a suspicious death over on the other side of the city. It was Read more...

Reviews, Books - Stuart MacBride - Dying Light (HarperCollins) Published 2nd May 2006 Reviewed By Nick Quantrill
	Dying Light is the eagerly anticipated second novel from new crime-fiction hotshot, Stuart MacBride, and follows sharply on the heels of last year's critically acclaimed debut, Cold Granite. Once again following the story of Detective Sergeant Logan 'Lazarus' McRae, Dying Light opens with him set to cement his position as the rising star of Aberdeen's CID. Read more...

Fiction - Complicity Part 6 By Nick Quantrill
	Complicity is the new crime-fiction novella set in Hull featuring Detective Sergeant Coleman and Detective Constable Maynard. The thisisull.com serialisation is accompanied by the stunning black and white photography of Roland Standaert, which illustrates the story and takes a unique look at the city. Complicity and other stories are available for free. Read more...

Fiction - Complicity Part 5 By Nick Quantrill
	Complicity is the new crime-fiction novella set in Hull featuring Detective Sergeant Coleman and Detective Constable Maynard. The thisisull.com serialisation is accompanied by the stunning black and white photography of Roland Standaert, which illustrates the story and takes a unique look at the city. Complicity and other stories are available for free. Read more...

Fiction - Complicity Part 4 By Nick Quantrill
	Complicity is the new crime-fiction novella set in Hull featuring Detective Sergeant Coleman and Detective Constable Maynard. The thisisull.com serialisation is accompanied by the stunning black and white photography of Roland Standaert, which illustrates the story and takes a unique look at the city. Complicity and other stories are available for free. Read more...

Fiction - Complicity Part 3 By Nick Quantrill
	Complicity is the new crime-fiction novella set in Hull featuring Detective Sergeant Coleman and Detective Constable Maynard. The thisisull.com serialisation is accompanied by the stunning black and white photography of Roland Standaert, which illustrates the story and takes a unique look at the city. Complicity and other stories are available for free. Read more...

Reviews, Books - Rising To Obscurity and How To Remain Anonymous by AAA Aarbon (Bitterne Books) Reviewed By Nick Quantrill
	Published by Hull-based Bitterne Books, the first two titles in this humorous series offer a different take on the modern world that we live in. Part satire, part social comment, they follow the story of AAA Aarbon, a self-confessed seeker of anonymity. AAA Aarbon is described by his editor as being best forgotten for many reasons. Rising To Obscurity charts the absurd Read more...

Fiction - Complicity Part 2 By Nick Quantrill
	Complicity is the new crime-fiction novella set in Hull featuring Detective Sergeant Coleman and Detective Constable Maynard. The thisisull.com serialisation is accompanied by the stunning black and white photography of Roland Standaert, which illustrates the story and takes a unique look at the city. Complicity and other stories are available for free. Read more...

Fiction - Complicity Part 1 By Nick Quantrill
	Complicity is the new crime-fiction novella set in Hull featuring Detective Sergeant Coleman and Detective Constable Maynard. The thisisull.com serialisation is accompanied by the stunning black and white photography of Roland Standaert, which illustrates the story and takes a unique look at the city. Complicity and other stories are available for free. Read more...

Reviews, Books - Complicity by Nick Quantrill Reviewed by Steve Rudd
	The rain refused to ease as Coleman made his way through Queens Gardens and on towards King Edward Street. He pulled his collar up and hurried his pace... This is a staggeringly enthralling showcase for Hull-based writer Nick Quantrill's unmistakable talent for writing fiction - and crime fiction, to be more precise. He has written a fair few short stories that revolve around crime Read more...

Single Reviews - The Holloways - Generator (Sensible Recordings) By Nick Quantrill
	Hailing from the Holloway Road area of London, this limited edition, vinyl-only debut release is a prime slice of ska-tinged pop from a band destined to be one to watch out for in 2006. Lead track Generator is a three-minute snapshot of what the band have to offer. With its prominent harmonies and choppy guitars, Generator is something approaching a 21st Century take on Read more...

Reviews, Books - Robert Adams - Antman (Bitterne Books) Reviewed By Nick Quantrill
	Antman is the latest crime novel from prolific Hull-based author Robert Adams. It is his interest in ant behaviour that forms the heart of this book, and one that allows him to craft a dark narrative that absorbs and terrifies in equal measure. The novel starts with the discovery of a dead pig at a remote location in the Hull area. Forensic investigation reveals that the animal was reduced Read more...