Archives for Reviews - Page 6
“Lockdown”
at Hastings Arts Forum By Benji Thomas Hastings Arts Forum, nestled within Marine Court and facing out to the sea, is currently playing host to Lockdown, an exhibition of works…
Exhibition Review: Two Worlds
The mixed-media exhibition; Two Worlds is yet another exciting addition to The Hastings Arts Forum’s increasingly dynamic programme of shows and events. The gallery re-opened its doors to the public…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Climate Crisis & The Global Green New Deal By Noam Chomsky, Robert Pollin and C J Polychroniou Published by Verso Books, 2020, paperback rrp £ / Bookbuster price £ Review…
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New graphic novel on Mugsborough The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists in words & pictures By Scarlett and Sophie Rickard Published by SelfMadeHero, Paperback, 352 pages. RRP £; REVIEW BY PETE DONOHUE…
HIP AUTHOR INTERVIEW Things in Heaven and Earth
By Jane MetcalfePaperback, £ INTERVIEW BY LUCY BROWN St Leonards author Jane Metcalfe launched her book Things in Heaven and Earth at the town’s Funky art gallery on Sunday. A…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Lovecraft Country By Matt RuffPublished by Picador, 2016, paperback RRP £ / hardback RRP £(£12 at Bookbuster) REVIEW BY TIM BARTON I recently saw the first episodes of the new…
HIP YOUNG WRITING
Get Hastings Reading Our passion for words goes viral By Stephen Ratcliffe Culture Shift, a key partner in the Get Hastings Reading campaign, has launched a series of short films…
HIP YOUNG WRITING: Full Stop
An anthology by children and young people in the Hastings areaReview by Lucy Brown This anthology by young writers from Hastings based on the theme of the Covid-19 lockdown is…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Privatising Justice: The Security Industry,War and Crime Control By Wendy Fitzgibbon and John LeaPublished by Pluto, April 2020, paperback RRP £ By Tim Barton A cartoon potted history might suggest that…
Embodied Land: An exhibition of Sally Cole’s paintings
Rye Art Gallery until 30th by Simone Witney “I have walked out of the body and into the mountain. I am a manifestation of its total life, as is the…
BOOKBUSTERS REVIEW
Just Transitions:Social Justice in the Shift Towards a Low-Carbon WorldEdited by Edouard Morena, Dunja Krause and Dimitris StevisPublished by Pluto, November 2019, paperback RRP £ Review By Tim Barton Once…
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Stories for the Mad Volume One Various authors Book review by Elly Gibson Stories for the Mad is the debut short fiction anthology from Moran Press, based just outside Boston…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
The Deficit Myth:Modern Monetary Theory and How to Build a Better Economy By Stephanie KeltonPublished by John Murray Review by Lee Humphries I’ve been eagerly awaiting Stephanie Kelton’s book The…
Days of Rock exhibition at The Lucy Bell Gallery
The Lucy Bell Gallery’s current summer exhibition of British music culture, Days of Rock, is the perfect antidote for anyone who, like myself, has been struggling with the loss of…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Human Kind: A Hopeful HistoryBy Rutger Bregman Published by BloomsburyReview by ‘MW’ Human Kind a Hopeful History, by Rutger Bregman, has been my choice during the quarantine. I find myself…
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Smoking Herb & Other Stories By John D RobinsonAnalog Submission Press Review by Pete Donohue A title may not mean what you think it does. This isn’t a tale about…
Online Art Shows Worth a Look
Tempo Arts Tempo Artsis delighted to be working with five international artists to present Your Place, a new digital online project which offers perspectives during the lockdown and beyond. Your…
Festival by the Lake Online
By Gareth Stevens It was inevitable that the Festival by the Lake would be cancelled this year given the current situation. However a similar inevitability meant that Polly Gifford, the…
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Cassidy’s Cross By Tom O’Brien Review by Elly Gibson Cassidy’s Cross is set in the fictional village of Doonbay in the South East of Ireland. It’s the 1960s and rural life…
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Turbulent Spinsters: Women’s Fight for the Vote in Hastings and St LeonardsBy Ann Kramer Review by Ben Bruges Most of social historian Ann Kramer’s meticulous research comes from the Hastings…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
The Conservation Revolution: radical ideas for saving nature beyond the AnthropoceneBy Bram Büscher and Robert Fletcher Verso, RRP £ Bookbuster price £ Review by Tim Barton We face a global…
A Word From The De La Warr Pavilion
In 1935 DLWP was designed as a place to bring people together, inside and out, and we will work hard to bring that back to you as soon as we…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
The Near Horizon Collapse, TechUtopia, or Small Is Beautiful – Part One: HubrisBy Holly Jean Buck Review by Tim Barton In After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration (Verso, £),…
Local Photographer and Legend Giles Duley Calls for Artists
VENT Studio Giles created VENT “out of a place of anger” having spent years photographing active warzones. In a video on the VENT website, he describes his need to progress…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
When Protest Becomes Crime:Politics and Law in Liberal Democracies By Carolijn TerwindtPublished by Pluto Books, paperback £ Review by Tim Barton In liberal democracies there tends to be an assumption,…
HIP LOCAL ESSAY
Some Thoughts on Quarantine by the Sea By Chris Smith The sea is almost completely still this afternoon, coloured an undefinable shade of grey as if to reflect the slowly…
HIP POETRY READ
The Death of a Clown By Tom Bland Review by R J Dent Beneath the striking cover of Tom Bland’s poetry pamphlet, The Death of a Clown, there is a…
HIP LOCAL READ
Coming of Age By Danny Ryan Review by Amanda Pollard A friendly reviewer of this book writes on page one “I read it in one sitting”. This is encouraging since I’ve…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
A Land By Jacquetta Hawkes A Pelican Book, paperback published 1959; hardback from Cresset Press, 1951 Review by Tim Barton Jacquetta Hawkes Perfidious Albion, the culmination of centuries under the Norman…
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Strange Exits from HastingsA Cornucopia of Bizarre Deaths and Unsolved Murders By Helena Wojtczak£10: Review by Elly Gibson What comes to mind when you think about Hastings? The famous…
Exciting New Works Emerge at streetsmART
On 22nd-23rd February Hastings’ Observer Building opened its doors for streetsmART, a unique celebration of graffiti and street art. Over 300 visitors took part in a five-hour ‘slam’ event on…
Bookbuster Book Review
A Sand County Almanac: & Sketches Here and There By Aldo LeopoldPublished by OUPPaperback £ available at Bookbusters REVIEW BY TIM BARTON Aldo Leopold died in 1948, helping fight a…
Weather War
Hattie Ellis reviews a recent show at the Stables It’s May 1944, three weeks before D-Day, and pressure is ratcheting up. Will the Allied forces be able to invade Europe…
Nick Cave – Supporting Cinecity Brighton
A review by John Knowles Let’s face it we all love a secret gig, one that slips under the radar, one that not everyone is privy to, and on Sunday…