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Look Through Any Window
Review by Kent Barker Is there just the hint of the peeping Tom in all of us? A nosiness that needs to know what’s going on behind drawn curtains? If…
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The Great Adaptation: Climate, Capitalism and Catastrophe By Romain FelliPublished by Verso, 2021, RRP £, £ at Bookbuster Review by Tim Barton The last few decades, from the 1987 UN…
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Swallowing Paregoric Babies By Pete Donohue Published by Uncollected Press (ML, USA)158 pp. $15 from publisher or £ from Amazon UKAlso available from local bookshops (signed) Review by Nick Pelling…
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Oil Be Damned: Part three Eating Fossil Fuels: Oil, Food and the Coming Crisis in Agriculture By Dale Allen PfeifferPublished by New Society, 2006, £ at Bookbuster Review by Tim…
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Antisemitism: Here and Now By Deborah LipstadtPublished by Schocken 2019 Review by Amy Bradford The recent events in Israel and Gaza have brought international attention to their situation. To those…
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Oil Be Damned: Part TwoWhite Skin, Black Fuel: on thedangers of fossil fascism By Andreas Malm and the Zetkin CollectivePublished by Verso, 2021 Review by Tim Barton This is an…
For Better or For Worse
Be sure to visit the current show of photographs by the renowned artist Jane Hilton at Solaris Gallery in Norman Road, St Leonards. Gareth Stevens pays a visit and talks…
Bunker Girls at the Stables
The Stables Theatre recently staged Bunker Girls – set in Berlin in 1945. Francis Saunders watched the opening and closing performances on Wednesday 19th and Saturday 22nd ; This was…
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Oil Be Damned: Part OneCrude Britannia: How Oil Shaped a Nation By James Marriott & Terry MacalisterPublished by Pluto, 2021 Review by Tim Barton The borough I went to school…
HIP REVIEW
Let me be beside the seaside Kent Barker reviews the summer exhibition at the Hastings Contemporary Does anyone NOT have vivid childhood memories of visits to the beach? Images stuck…
Punk, Plastic and the Pier
Poly Styrene: I am a Cliché Film review by Martin Dickie A new film about punk icon Poly Styrene opens with a drone shot high above St Leonards before cutting…
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Inequality and the Labyrinths of Democracy By Göran TherbornPublished by Verso, 2020Review by Tim Barton Therborn has written on the problems of democracy over many decades, and this book brings…
Caught by the Boggins
Jack in the Green may be a pre-lockdown Hastings memory, but many other weird and wonderful May Day events take place around the country … as Jamie Sellers discovered when…
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Privatized Planet By T J Coles Published by New Internationalist, 2019, rrp £, Bookbuster price £ Review by Tim Barton Over a decade ago, Cameron, then opposition leader, complained of…
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Lost Odyssey By Richard FryerPaperback £ Review by Nick Pelling Richard Fryer is a Hastings man through and through. He loves a pint in the boozy gloom of the Horse…
Book Choice for #ATownExploresABook22
Having explored Edward Lear’s Nonsense Songs, Stories Botany and Alphabets this April with the community of St Leonards-on-Sea, ExploreTheArch Theatre Company and its festival partners who oversee #ATownExploresABook are excited…
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No More Cakes and Ale? By Sophie NewtonPublished by Turned Brain Books, 2021, rrp £10 Review by Tim Barton I am lucky, my intolerance to gluten is not full-flung hospitalising…
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Always More New & Selected Poems By John D RobinsonHorror Sleaze Trash, paperback $, pp162 The Barbed & the Beautiful By John D Robinson & Marcel HermsPetrichor (NL), hand stitched…
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Diary of an MP’s Wife:Inside and Outside Power By Sasha Swire Published by Little Brown, 2020 Review by Tim Barton Sasha, born Alexandra Patrusha Mina Nott (a name change reminiscent…
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Empireland By Sathnam Sanghera Review by Nick Pelling The British Empire did not decline and fall; it is alive and well. Or, to be more accurate, a distorted dream of…
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Capitalism and the Sea By Liam Campling & Alejandro ColásPublished by Verso, 2021 Review by Tim Barton As long ago as the Iron Age, Britain was exchanging goods for profit…
AltPitch: Experiencing Art in a Different Space
You may have read the calls for entries for the AltPitch festival – but you may not be clear exactly what the festival involves or how you can watch this…
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Localism: Manifesto for a Twenty-First Century England By Charlie Shaw, Patrick Carragher, Ethan Bridge, Seth Littleboy and Liam Murphy Published by Local Matters Ltd£15 from Bookbusters Review by Tim Barton…
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The Physics of Climate Change By Lawrence M KraussPublished by Head of Zeus, 2021, RRP £ Review by Tim Barton One of the problems of objectivity displayed by many media…
MSL Presents: The Sea Beneath
MSL is an arts organisation based in Hastings, initially established in 2005, with the aim of developing and supporting individual and community engagement within the creative sector. The agency is…
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SkyseedBy Bill McGuirePublished by Book Guild Publishing, 2021, RRP £ Review by Tim Barton Back in 2002, I reviewed Bill’s OUP book A Guide to the End of the World,…
National Literacy Trust celebrates children’s literacy in Hastings with launch of Connecting Stories
The National Literacy Trust’s Hub in Hastings was launched in January 2018 and is known as Hastings Stories. As part of the Hastings Opportunity Area programme it is a government…
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The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It? By Emma DowlingPublished by Verso, 2021, RRP £, £ at Bookbuster Review by Tim Barton The care industry,…
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How to Blow Up a Pipeline By Andreas MalmPublished by Verso, 2021, RRP £, £ at Bookbuster Review by Tim Barton Subtitled Learning to Fight in a World on Fire,…
HIP READ
The Last Gift and other Tales By Mary RothwellPublished by Scriptora on 6th January 2021 Review By Pete Donohue In 2019 HIP Literature favourably reviewed local author Mary Rothwell’s poetry…
HIP READs of 2020
The best of the year’s HIP Reads, in no particular order of merit,as chosen by Literature Editor PETE DONOHUE Dhanmondi Road By Young Early in the year HIP’s ELLY GIBSON…
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Beginners Guides: Anti-Capitalism By Simon TormeyPublished by Oneworld, 2013, price £ at Bookbuster Review By Tim Barton Merry Christmas! To all the parents out there. In theory, we are celebrating…
What you see is what you see
Gareth Stevens reviews the work of photographer Chris Daly. Our daily exposure to thousands of TV and internet images has led to the notion of ‘truth’ becoming a “function of…
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A Little Light:20 ways the coronavirus response could make the world better Edited by Tom Whipple et al. Published by Sphere, September 2020,hardback rrp £ Review By Tim Barton This…
Live Before Lockdown
By Lucy Brown It was a rare night out for me; my first time at The Piper, and my first experience seeing live music in St ; There was nothing…
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Automation and the Future of Work By Aaron BenanavPublished by Verso, 2020, hardback rrp £ Review By Tim Barton Wandering into town last week, a friend and I got chatting…
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Entangled Life: How fungi make our worlds, change our minds and shape our futures By Merlin SheldrakePublished by The Bodley Head, 2020, hardback rrp £ Review Tim Barton For Star…
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Families of Spies By Brian LandersRedDoor Press, paperback, £ by Elly Gibson Families of Spies is the second installment in ‘the Dylan series’, a set of four spy novels by…
Victor Pasmore: Line & Space
By Gareth Stevens I am an atheist, but still cherish visiting temples and churches and the feeling of contemplation that descends on me when I enter old religious spaces. Similarly,…