Books

• Excavate: The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall  was published by Faber in April 2021. 
• The Fields Here are Full of Ghosts, artists book published by Wysing Arts Centre in June 2019.

Arts criticism and interviews

• Interview with ex-Fall group House of All for The Wire
• Review of Zadie Xa for Burlington Contemporary
• Review of Jerwood FVU awards at Leeds Art Gallery
• Exhibition reviews and profiles for The Wire, Corridor 8, This is Tomorrow, and more.

Essays etc

• An essay about time in the pandemic, for Tribune
• An accompanying short text for Sour Persimmons Chasm, an all-star group show at Andy Holden’s gallery Ex-Baldessarre
• An essay about “baby brain” and how stupidity can be weirdly enriching, for Doggerland journal
• And an essay about Stacy from Wayne’s World and radical vulnerability in the Bad Vibes Club Reader

Press coverage

• Radio 4, Front Row, review of Let The Song Hold Us at FACT Liverpool (“Just beautiful poetry.”)
• The Guardian, review of Let The Song Hold Us at FACT Liverpool (“Norton’s conversational tone is soothing, but the content is probing, highlighting the discomfort generated by oppression over generations.”)
• Bookforum, review of Excavate! The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall by Sasha Frere-Jones: “I adore Excavate!, because it is the only Fall book that has the range of a Fall album, and we are two dozen books into the commentary at this point… my favorite expansion on Smith’s work is Tessa Norton’s essay about Smith as his own school of education, the vision of a man presenting a syllabus as rock songs (or vice versa).”
• Excavate! was the Louder Than War #1 Book of the year, and also Rough Trade, The Times, Mojo, Uncut, The Herald Book of the year.
• “This is not a book about a rock band. This is not even a book about Mark E Smith. This is a book about The Fall group – or more precisely, their world. To 50,000 Fall Fans: please buy this inspired & inspiring, profound & provocative, beautiful & bonkers Book of Revelations.” — David Peace
• “Mind blowing . . . there is so much to enjoy in this brilliant book.” —
  Tim Burgess
• “A container sized treasure trove . . . I strongly advise you to buy it.”
  — Maxine Peake
• “The most wonderful, unashamedly intellectual, pretentious, ridiculous, exciting hymn to this incredible group.” — Andy Miller, Backlisted