HIP YOUNG WRITING
Get Hastings Reading Our passion for words goes viral By Stephen Ratcliffe Culture Shift, a key partner in the Get Hastings Reading campaign, has launched a series of short films to encourage young people to take up the art of…
HIP YOUNG WRITING: Full Stop
An anthology by children and young people in the Hastings areaReview by Lucy Brown This anthology by young writers from Hastings based on the theme of the Covid-19 lockdown is as varied in content and style as the ages of…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Privatising Justice: The Security Industry,War and Crime Control By Wendy Fitzgibbon and John LeaPublished by Pluto, April 2020, paperback RRP £ By Tim Barton A cartoon potted history might suggest that the nation state evolved directly from ‘the mafia that won’.…
Embodied Land: An exhibition of Sally Cole’s paintings
Rye Art Gallery until 30th by Simone Witney “I have walked out of the body and into the mountain. I am a manifestation of its total life, as is the starry saxifrage or the white-winged ptarmigan.” This is a quote…
BOOKBUSTERS REVIEW
Just Transitions:Social Justice in the Shift Towards a Low-Carbon WorldEdited by Edouard Morena, Dunja Krause and Dimitris StevisPublished by Pluto, November 2019, paperback RRP £ Review By Tim Barton Once upon a time, a few months ago (as things are…
HIP READ
Stories for the Mad Volume One Various authors Book review by Elly Gibson Stories for the Mad is the debut short fiction anthology from Moran Press, based just outside Boston USA. It contains 11 carefully selected short stories from contemporary…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
The Deficit Myth:Modern Monetary Theory and How to Build a Better Economy By Stephanie KeltonPublished by John Murray Review by Lee Humphries I’ve been eagerly awaiting Stephanie Kelton’s book The Deficit Myth after watching her talks on YouTube for years.…
Days of Rock exhibition at The Lucy Bell Gallery
The Lucy Bell Gallery’s current summer exhibition of British music culture, Days of Rock, is the perfect antidote for anyone who, like myself, has been struggling with the loss of such recreational freedoms during lockdown. The show features the work…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Human Kind: A Hopeful HistoryBy Rutger Bregman Published by BloomsburyReview by ‘MW’ Human Kind a Hopeful History, by Rutger Bregman, has been my choice during the quarantine. I find myself in the fortunate number of the furloughed, therefore salaried, at…