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HIP READ: Our Friends in Berlin By Anthony Quinn
Was there a Nazi fifth column in Hastings during the war which met in ‘a pub at the far corner of Warrior Square’? There certainly is in Anthony Quinn’s latest…
James Joyce Inspires Local Art
Following the success of Hastings Bloomsday, a local celebration of Joyce’s ground-breaking novel Ulysses in collaboration with Hastings Library, an art exhibition inspired by this work launches at Café Rue…
Poetry by Sir David Hare – Hastings hears it first
The first Hastings Literary Festival got off to a memorable start last Friday afternoon with a world premiere reading of poetry written by Sir David Hare. The opening event of…
Polari on Sea – Back by Popular Demand
Three and a half weeks on from the successful – albeit rain-washed and eventually diverted to drier venues – second Hastings Pride festival, HIP Literature welcomes the return of celebrated…
Bookbuster Book Review
The Production of Money How to Break the Power of Bankers By Ann Pettifor Published by Verso, available from Printed Matter Books, price £ Review by Lee Humphries Ann Pettifor…
Something for Everyone at Hastings LitFest
By Alison Steel Hastings LitFest runs from August 31 to September 2, 2018 and features workshops, author talks, panel discussions, films, plays and appearances by actors Julian Sands and Amanda…
HIP CHILDREN’S READ
Me and My Alien Friend Cosmic Poems about Friendship Written and illustrated by Ed Boxall The latest publication from Hastings writer, illustrator, performer and educator, Ed Boxall, is published by…
HIP READ: The Pursuit of Shadows By John D Robinson
Reclusive Hastings poet John D Robinson has been featured in these pages before. Hundreds of his poems have appeared in the small press and online journals, and Robinson has an…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Charles and Mary Lamb at Hastings By Edward Preston Published by Literatours, available from Bookbuster REVIEW BY TIM BARTON Friends with Coleridge, Wordsworth and Hazlitt, the Lambs, who were brother and…
Hastings to Hollywood – Local author sells film rights
For Hastings author and mum-of-three Karina Evans, the creative journey that is now about to see her literary talent go global began in 2001. That was when she began to…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Secret Hastings & St Leonards By Tina Brown REVIEW BY TIM BARTON Now here’s a fun little book – unearthing details of smuggling, former famous residents, groovy little places like…
HIP SHORT STORY: Tonald Drump
By Richard Lewis Prior to World War 3, Tonald Drump was not always the warring truffle-pig in the world’s worst wig. Once upon a time, he was a highly sensitive…
HIP SHORT STORY: The Bridge
By Adam Russell A word on the Link Road. Or as it’s affectionately known, the Combe Valley Way. It’s made of tarmac, but words built it. Seventeen years of talk…
Literary Festival Books in to Hastings
By Alison Steel Hastings is set to welcome award-winning and best-selling writers, performers and poets next month at the town’s newest festival. The impressive line-up includes authors Patrick Gale, Sophie…
Printed Matter Book Group
Review by ERICA SMITH (HASTINGS CREATIVES) Doughnut Economics & Out of the Wreckage The non-party political book group hosted by Lee at Printed Matter bookshop recently discussed Doughnut Economics by…
Bookbuster Book Review
Doughnut Economics By Kate Raworth An Exciting Book about Economics REVIEW BY KAY GREEN In 1543, Copernicus drew a new diagram of the sun and the planets. As we all probably…
HIP CLASSICS: The Odyssey – Am I Bothered?
The Odyssey is full of enchantment for its characters and its audience. Some of this comes from the wealth of domestic detail: the preparation of meals and baths, descriptions of…
Coastal Currents – Short Story Competition
A chance for local unknown writers On 30th September, as part of the Coastal Currents month, Hastings author, Joan Taylor-Rowan, will be reading three of her art-inspired short stories at…
Write on in Hastings – EMMA SMART
FOLLOWING A GLOWING REVIEW OF THE DEBUT NOVEL FROM E. G. SMART BY EMILY BRYANT IN HIP 105, PETE DONOHUE FINDS OUT MORE ABOUT THIS NEW LOCAL AUTHOR I moved…
Bookbuster Book Review
The True Cost of Food PDF, available from the Sustainable Food Trust REVIEW BY TIM BARTON In our last issue, HIP 105, Zelly Restorick covered a really great talk and…
Bloomsday1066
On 16 June 2018, Hastings celebrates the date made famous by James Joyce LUCY BRENNAN-SHIEL writes Bloomsday1066 came to Hastings Library on Saturday 16 June, with readings from James Joyce’s…
HIP READ – Paper And Ink #13
Tales From The Bar Side Hastings’ own local literary zine has just published its thirteenth issue. Paper And Ink has already achieved cult status in the national and international underground…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
My Turn Will Come By E G Smart Paperback, available at Bookbuster REVIEW BY EMILY BRYANT The author of this moving new novel has a background in training and business support.…
Print Matters
Every seaside town should have its urban rock pools: places where time drifts delightfully while your curiosity and imagination are captivated by the familiar and the unexpected. An independent book…
HIP SHORT STORY – Able Was Ere I Saw Elva
ADAM RUSSELL Trillions of miles in to an endless journey, no-one now can imagine a world without cars. As my gym buddy Tim always comments, quoting Heidegger, “they solicit our…
BOOKBUSTER BOOK REVIEW – A Party with Socialists in It
A Party with Socialists in It – A History of the Labour Left By Simon Hannah Pluto Press, paperback, available at Printed Matter Bookshop and Bookbuster, at £ – 10% discount with…
Hastings Writers’ Group SF Competition Results
VICKY ARMSTRONG Nineteen weird and wonderful stories were entered for our recent science fiction short story competition, ably judged by Dr Who writer, Simon Guerrier. Simon praised the originality and…
HIP READ – Coming Home For Good Personal Reflections On Homelessness By Roger Nuttall
Hastings self-published author Roger Nuttall is a nurse co-ordinator for Hastings Homeless Service. Coming Home For Good, as the back page blurb explains, charts his personal journey from teenage rebellion…
Bearding Mary: Perseus and Medusa Herstory not History
HIP CLASSICS BY SIMONE WITNEY Medusa is a gorgon, a monster with snakes for hair, whose glance alone will turn you to stone. Perseus is a young Greek who cuts…
Bloomsday1066
Hastings Celebrates James Joyce’s Ulysses. Lucy Brennan Shiel writes. Bloomsday is a secret event that is gradually arriving in towns and cities all over the world. Last year it crept…
BOOKBUSTER BOOK REVIEW
May Made Easy: An Oral History of the 1960s Uprising in France By Mitchell Abidor Pluto Press, paperback, available at Bookbuster, £ REVIEW BY TIM BARTON During the 1984 miners’…
Hastings poet nails London rap battle
Chalked Out is a new spoken word battle league where battlers are given time to research and write about their opponent and then invited to deliver the ‘writtens’ in front…
Write on in Hastings – MARCIA WOOLF
Pete Donohue catches up with hastings author Marcia Woolf ahead of the imminent publication of her second novel Woolf confesses to being a late starter. Although she’s ‘always written’, it…
HIP SHORT STORY – Toilet Ballet By Richard Lewis
I dreamt I won the lottery last night. I was in a public toilet far from home. My tatty trousers half-mast, I was listening to ‘Please Release Me, Let Me…
Bookbuster Book Review – Poems for Grenfell Tower
Poems for Grenfell Tower Edited by Rip Bulkeley Published by Onslaught Press. Available at Bookbuster, £10 REVIEW BY KAT NIP I’m sure that Theresa May and her government would much…
HIP – LGBT LIT
We want to tell you how… A new anthology of poetry and prose written and edited by gay women features two of Hastings & St Leonards’ most celebrated lesbian print…
Peace, Poetry and Jeremy Birch Trees
It could not have been a better afternoon weather-wise to celebrate the civic life of a much-loved former Labour leader of Hastings Borough Council. Saturday 5th May saw the Peace…
HIP READ: Quietly Occupied by Rose Miller
Artist, writer and long-time St Leonards resident Rose Miller has written a first novel set in Normandy under German military occupation in the Second World War. It chronicles the life…
HIP CLASSICS: The Athena Connection
“I wasn’t born of a mother. Apart from being physically female, I identify in every way with the masculine, and with my father.” This might be a line from ‘Lara…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
A Smuggler’s Tale By Andy Clancy Published by Pegasus Imagine you are at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, with Sergeant Major Daniel Sibson and his lifelong friend Corporal…