Hastings Museum Seeks Volunteers To Keep A Coronavirus Journal
The COVID-19 crisis has affected, and continues to affect, the lives of all of us. Many of the resultant changes to our lifestyles will hopefully only be temporary but others may well turn out to become ; When the danger…
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 yoke. In 1951, Jacquetta Hawkes, soon to marry J B…
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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 left myself one evening to read and review it. They’re…
Hastings Literary Festival –2020 Statement
By Alison Steel Hastings Literary Festival 2020, due to take place at the end of August, has been cancelled following suspension of the Arts Council England’s National Lottery Project Grants fund because of the Coronavirus crisis. Festival Director Sam Davey…
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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 battle of 1066 which left King Harold with an arrow…
HIP CLASSICS
The Greek Gods What if these deities were alive today? Of course I know they don’t exist, but they give us a rich language in which to describe experience. In this issue I look at fiery Hestia. While Hermes and…
New Jersey Poet Tohm Bakelas Hits Hastings
Tohm Bakelas is a big name on the transatlantic underground poetry scene. A native of New Jersey, he currently works there as a psychiatric social worker and declares that he will die there. When not spending quality time with his…
Book Review
The AnarchyBy William Dalrymple Published by Bloomsbury at £30 Review by Kent Barker Embarking on The Anarchy is not for the faint-hearted. To start with the tome runs to more than 500 pages, weighs in at a couple of kilos, spans…
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 wildfire on a neighbour’s farm. He had worked in the…
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We Swim To The Shark Overcoming Fear One Fish At A Time By Georgie CoddHardcover, 330ppLittle Brown (non-fiction) £ REVIEW BY DAVE YOUNG “Is your name really Codd?” asked Jenni Murray, concluding her Woman’s Hour interview with the author of…