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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…
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…
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…
HIP READ
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…
Hastings LitFest
Writing Competitions Now Open Hastings Literary Festival has launched its writing competitions for 2020, offering prizes of up to £200 as well as support packages for emerging local writers. Last…
Animal Encounter Story Competition
It’s often sudden, and completely unexpected. You turn a corner, or look up from whatever you’re doing, and there in front of you is a wild animal. For a few…
Bookbuster Book Review
Nature for Sale: The Commons Versus CommoditiesBy Giovanna RicoveriPublished by Pluto PressHardback £, available at Bookbusters Review By Tim Barton “We are simple people, with simple beliefs. We worship the…
HIP READ: Dhanmondi Road
By Review By Elly Gibson Dawn in the desert in Dubai and the Al Marmoum racetrack is buzzing. Twelve camels and their jockeys await the starting flag. The tension burns…
Hastings Chosen For World Book Day Event
Hastings is host to one of four special events happening in the UK from Share a Story ; These are happening in four areas where low levels of literacy are…
Local Poetry Feeds Local Foodbank
Foodbank Britain is the debut poetry chapbook from local poet and community activist Dee Howard. It is subtitled ‘A mixed bag of poems looking at life in serious, fun and…
HIP CLASSICS
The Greek Gods – What if these deities were alive today? My personal view is that the polytheism of the Greeks gives us a rich language in which to describe…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
New Model IslandBy Alex NivenPublished by Repeater Books£, paperback, available at Printed Matter Bookshop, and Bookbusters Review by Tim Barton Arthur, and many of our nation’s ur-myths, are Romano-British, which…
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The British State: A WarningBy Chris Nineham Review by Anna Arnone Parliament, the State, and the PeopleWe are certainly living in very interesting times the recent election result, having delivered…
Book Signing by R H Young
Local author Robin Young has seen encouraging sales and reviews for his debut novel Dhanmondi Road which was published last September under his pen name R H Young. Set in…
Get Hastings Young Football Fans Reading
Supported by Hastings United Football Club, the aim of the Get Hastings Reading campaign is to improve reading levels in Hastings where more than 50% of disadvantaged pupils do not…
Bookbuster Book Review
Plunder of the Commons: A Manifesto for Sharing Public WealthBy Guy StandingPublished by Pelican,£ paperbackReview by Tim Barton By the time you read this, we know that any policy for…
HIP Lit News
Seaside shorts By Joan Taylor-Rowan The Solstice Shorts festival coming to Hastings on 21st December was started by award-winning independent publisher Arachne Press in Greenwich on the shortest day of…
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Chipped Pearls: Elvira Slate Investigations Book Two By Helen JaceyShedunnit Productions (December 2019), £ Review by Susan De Muth I took Helen Jacey’s latest murder mystery starring Elvira Slate (the world’s…
HIP CLASSICS – Seasonal Spiced Tales
Bigger than a fox, smaller than a dog? It’s an ant. GOLD The story of gold-digging ants is one of the most charming in Herodotus’ history (written around 460-50 BCE).…
Bookbuster Book Review
Case for the Green New DealThe Commons Versus CommoditiesBy Ann Pettifor Published by Pluto Press, £, hardcoverAvailable at Printed Matter Bookshop, and Bookbusters Review by Lee Humphries By the time you…
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Night Boat to Tangier By Kevin BarryCanongate Books (HB, 214pp) Review by Dave Young Charlie Redmond & Morris Hearne, drug dealers and users, late of Cork, wait into the night…
Bookbuster Book Review
The Coming Silent Seasons? Part Four: Sterile SeasThe Oceans Are Emptying: Fish Wars & SustainabilityBy Raymond A. Rogers Black Rose BooksThe End of the Line: How Over-fishing is Changing the…
Hastings Favourite Christmas Tradition Is Back
A Penny Pincher’s Christmas CarolPreview by Pete Donohue A Penny Pincher’s Christmas Carol, Hastings’ favourite family Christmas show is returning for a five day run during the winter holiday season.…
HIP READ: Murmur
By Will Eaves Published by CB Editions, 2018 Review by Howard Colyer “One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, My little computer…
Bookbuster Book Review
The Fall and Rise of the British LeftBy Andrew Murray Verso Books, RRP , Bookbuster price £ Review by Tim Barton Andrew Murray is Comms Officer for ASLEF, and it’s…
HIP REVIEW: Identifying As Migrants
An open forum discussion at A Wave of Dreams Arts Lab in Kings Road, St Leonards on 30th October entitled Tolerance, Migration, Identity featured three panellists with truly global experience…
HIP CLASSICS: The Greek Gods
What if we imagined these deities alive today? I have a personal view that the polytheism of the Greeks gives us a useful language in which to look at experience.…
Bookbuster Book Review
Bad News for Labour: Antisemitism, the Party and Public Belief By Greg Philo, Mike Berry, Justin Schlosberg, Antony Lerman and David MillerPluto Press, rrp £ Review by Kay Green There…
HIP READ: The Age of Light
By Whitney ScharerPicador (hardcover, pp 320) Lee Miller occupies a place in the pantheon of great photographers alongside Henri Cartier-Bresson, Margaret Bourke-White and Robert Capa. She’s now the focus of…
New Chapter for Hastings As Charity Takes On Literacy Campaign
“Books to the ceiling, books to the sky. My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I’ll have a long beard by…
HIP READ: Last Train to Hilversum By Charlie Connelly
Bloomsbury hardback, £20 (pp 328) Review by Dave Young “The world is a small place when you have a radio,” remarks Cerys Matthews, presenter of popular and eclectic BBC Radio 2…
Debut Novel at 71
Local writer Robin Young has just had his first novel published at the age of 71. Writing under the pen name R H Young, the author from Crowhurst has been…
Bookbuster Book Review
The Coming Silent Seasons?Part Three: Visible and Invisible PlasticsTurning the Tide on PlasticsBy Lucy SiegleTrapeze Books, £ by Tim Barton Since the 1950s consumer boom plastics have encased and comprised…
US Poets at Bookbuster Sheer Poetry on 24th October
This month’s Sheer Poetry open mic event has been shifted from its usual 3rd Thursday to the 4th Thursday in order to accommodate two US poets who will be over…
Letter To My Father By Franz Kafka
(Translated by Howard Colyer) Introduction by HIP Literature Editor Pete Donohue Kafka’s Letter to my Father is a century old this autumn. A few years ago local writer and HIP…
Hastings Week Poetry Competition
By James Bacon As this competition has been a great success, we continue this year with a theme of the ‘Bayeux Tapestry’. All ages can enter and there are three…
Hastings Storytelling Festival – Earlier, Bigger And Better
This year Hastings Storytelling Festival is happening in October (5th – 13th), rather than November, with another packed programme of storytelling for children, families and adults, and incorporating a broad…
Afghanistan: Hidden Voices From A Forgotten War By Maya Evans
Voices for Creative Non-Violence, £5 Review by Kay Green 180 years of conflict and misery, and no end in sight. We talk about Iraq, we talk about Syria and Palestine…
HIP POETRY READ: Terra Incognita By Mary Rothwell
Scriptora (in association with the Society of Women Writers and Journalists), 2019, £7 Review by Jennifer Allan Both title and cover of this long-awaited poem collection are so arresting that…
Shadow Times: New Poetry from Paul A Green
Independently published paperback, £ Prolific local poet, playwright, novelist and short story writer, Paul A Green has been on the national and international scene for many years. His work has…