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Carbon Choices By Neil Kitching Published by the author, 2020, £ at Bookbusters Review by Tim Barton In a BBC interview last month, Greta Thunberg stated ‘I think that we…
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The Starship & the Canoe By Kenneth Brower Published by Mountaineers Books, 2020, £15 at Bookbusters Review by Tim Barton This odd, but rather wonderful, book was first published in…
Hastings Literary Festival unveils 2021 programme
Hastings Literary Festival is back from September 23rd-25th with a blend of author talks, writing workshops, expert panels, performances and ‘meet the agent’ sessions for budding writers. The line-up includes…
HIP LIT NEWS
New poetry from Brian Docherty Local poet Brian Docherty, sometimes known as The Bard of St Leonards, has a brand new collection published by Dempsey & Windle. Docherty has had…
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Oil Be Damned: Part fourBreaking Through: Understanding Sovereignty and Security in the Circumpolar Arctic (Editors) Wilfred Greaves & P. Whitney LackenbauerPublished by University of Toronto Press, 2021 Review by Tim…
HIP LIT NEWS
The National Literacy Trust hub in Hastings and REY® paper launch summertime comic book initiative to help children catch up The National Literacy Trust Hub in Hastings and sustainable paper…
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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…
HIP POETRY READ
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…
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The Rare Metals War By Guillaume PitronPublished by Scribe, paperback 288pp, RRP £ Review by Nick Pelling In the future we will all glide silently in our self-driving electric…
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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…
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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…
HIP LIT NEWS
Take10ToRead Hastings joins 100,000 readers across the UK in support of mental health and wellbeing On Monday May 10th, over 1600 people from schools and businesses in Hastings took part…
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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…
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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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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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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…
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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,…
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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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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…
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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 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…
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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…
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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…
HIP LIT LOCAL NEWS
Ambitious new bookshop coming to town Despite the current uncertainty of the economy and where Covid-19 restrictions might take us next, a new local independent bookshop is due to open…
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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…
HIP LIT LOCAL NEWS
New poetry from Brian Docherty Local poet Brian Docherty, who has been a regular presence at events in Hastings, Eastbourne, Brighton and further afield for several years now, and is…
HIP INTERVIEW
Should We Fall Behind By Sharon Duggal, Bluemoose Books, 2020 INTERVIEW BY LUCY BROWN Brighton author, Sharon Duggal, launches her latest book Should We Fall Behind on October 22nd. The novel…
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Awakening of Spies By Brian Landers RedDoor Press, paperback £, pp304 Review by Elly Gibson Awakening of Spies is the first book in ‘the Dylan series’, a set of four…
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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…
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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 LIT NEWS
Sussex arts organisation publishes anti-racist book list BY ROWENA PRICE Writing Our Legacy is delighted to share 30 Anti-Racist Books for Children – an anti-racist children’s book list for the…