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Andrew James Murray lives in Manchester England. He writes both fiction and poetry, his work appearing in various anthologies and publications including Best Of Manchester Poets (2013)

A collection of poetry appeared in 2009: One Man's Meat

A poem and his first published fiction appeared in the first of the Northlore Series of books: Folklore (2015)

A collection of poetry, comprising some poems from One Man’s Meat plus forty new ones, was published by Nordland Publishing: Heading North (2015)

He had two short stories included in the second of the Northlore anthologies: Mythos (2016)

His second poetry collection, In Brigantia, came out in 2019.

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	Folklore (The Northlore Series #1) by M.J. Kobernus (Goodreads Author), Hugh B. Long (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Claire Casey (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.59 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heading North (Songs of the North) 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mythos (The Northlore Series #2) by M.J. Kobernus (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Loïc Lendemaine, Franklin Babrove 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Brigantia it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fifty by Andrew James Murray (Goodreads Author), Alien Buddha (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Announcing the publication of my new collection, In Brigantia.

‘Andrew James Murray's second collection invites you to Brigantia, territory of Celtic tribe the Brigantes. It is a Brigantia of both geography and imagination, where Queen Cartimandua rubs shoulders with screen goddess Marilyn Monroe, and Tom Cruise is proselytising upon the streets of Manchester.’ Read more of this blog post »

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Bennett Street Sunday School 1801-1966: A Manchester History

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