BOOKBUTER REVIEW
Knocking Out My Demons By Paul HugginsPublished by Verite CM, 2021, paperback, £ at Bookbuster, 39 Queens Road. Review by Tim Barton Paul is Hastings born and bred, and pretty close to me in age. His stories of misspent youth,…
BOOK REVIEW
Mister Hastings By Nick Pelling The eighteenth century is an unloved sort of century. Certainly, British history in that era is hardly taught in school at all. Instead, students are faced with an endless diet of Tudors and a slightly…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Edible Plants By Geoff DannPublished by Anthropozoic Books, 2021 softback, £25 rrpAvailable from Bookbuster Books Review by Tim Barton Five years ago Hastings-based Geoff Dann authored Edible Mushrooms: A Forager’s Guide to the Wild Fungi of Britain, Ireland and Europe,…
The Real Deal
By Nick Pelling Many of us have no doubt dreamt of being an artist; breaking the digital chains that now ensnare us all. But reality, in the form of needing to eat and pay the inflating bills, tends to squash…
Magnificent Madness?
Nick Pelling attends the St Leonards’ premiere of a documentary about the making of a film by the former Monty Python star Terry Gilliam. Have you ever thought that a project you were working on was under some form of…
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Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We became Postmodern By Stuart Jeffries Published by Verso, 2021 hardback, £20 rrp Review by Tim Barton Jeffries is not seeking to give a straightforward definition of ‘postmodernism’, nor does he dig into the…
Capturing Lives Up Close
By Ben Cornwell Documentaries are by no means a new form of film. But their popularity appears to have grown in recent years, particularly with streaming giants such as Netflix venturing into the genre. But what is it about this…
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COP26 Part 3 Who Owns The Wind? By David McDermott HughesPublished by Verso, 2021 Paperback, £ rrp Review Tim Barton Here we are post-COP26, hopefully angry at the usual greenwash and fig-leafing on display. It is not as if the…
HIP CHILDREN’S READ
Carried Away with the CarnivalWritten and illustrated by Ed Boxall Published by Pearbox Press, 2021Paperback picture book, £ full colour pages, Ages 3-8 Hastings-based children’s writer and illustrator Ed Boxall’s latest book has just been published. Ed is also a…
Blooming Opera
Seventeen-year-old music student Tom Bruges reviews Barefoot Opera’s community production of BloomBritannia, having taken part as one of the choirs brought in to amplify to performance. As the final rendition of Ajde Jano (a traditional Serbian folk song) concluded…