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Mistresses and Unrequited Love
Patrick Glass reviews a classical concert with rather racy undertones. Maestro violinist, Max Baillie, and world class pianist Ljubica Stojanovic played together for the first time at St Leonards’ Christ…
Travels in the Exotic Kitchen
By Helen Murphy and Nick Pelling Fiona Denning is a painter and a gardener. So, you might expect her subject matter to be full of pretty petals, leafy shapes and…
BOOK REVIEW
Secret Orbit By Ken Edwards Published by Grand Iota, paperback 254pp, £ Review by Pete Donohue St Leonards author Ken Edwards will have his fourth novel Secret Orbit published on…
Creating Strong Currents
Tina Morris, director of Coastal Currents, looks back at this year’s diverse arts festival. Coastal Currents has some sort of magic that permeates and populates the town in September, forged…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Protest: Stories of ResistanceEdited by Ra PagePublished by Comma Press, at £ Street Spirit: the Power of Protest and MischiefBy Steve CrawshawPublished by LOM Art, rrp £, available at Bookbuster…
Site number: 102222
By Gareth Stevens Kenton Lowe, the director of blackShed Gallery is always keen to swerve from the script. He always does things a little differently. Site number: 102222 is an…
BOOKBUSTER ESSAY
On the Queen and Monarchy Essay by Tim Barton Milan Kundera said that ‘the struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting’. Writing this month, Robin…
BOOK REVIEW
NO AGA SAGA SUSAN DESROSIERS says the debut novel, Of No Consequence, a tale of modern slavery set in the seamier sides of Hastings should be compulsory reading in secondary…
Controlling Your Piano
HIP’s reviewer Victoria Kingham is knocked out by a recent recital from daring debutant Daisuke Yoshidaat The Stables. On a seemingly ordinary Sunday afternoon approximately 60 people assembled, almost en…
Jason Rebello Trio at Jazz Hastings
Review by Victoria Kingham The jazz club at EHSAA is privileged to host Jason Rebello, one of the most gifted and long-established British jazz ; Influenced by the best of…
BOOKBUTER REVIEW
The Solutions Are Already Here By Peter Gelderloos Published by Pluto Press, at £, available at Bookbuster Review by Tim Barton Gelderloos has published a few books. Tellingly, one was…
REVIEW: Through a Glass Darkly
For years after the war, my grandfather kept in his workshop, windows whose every pane of glass was criss-crossed by tape to prevent flying shards in the event of a…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Disaster Anarchy By Rhiannon Firth Published by Pluto Press, at £, available at Bookbuster Review by Tim Barton Naomi Klein, in her The Shock Doctrine is paraphrased in the Guardian…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth By James Lovelock Published by Oxford University Press, 1979 REVIEW BY TIM BARTON James Ephraim Lovelock was born in 1919 and died…
Ten Years on and Rye is still Jazzing the Blues
By Susan Desrosiers Just over ten years ago, Ian Bowden, musician, musical director and graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, had an idea. His career as a musician was…
Mine’s a Double
By Gareth Stevens Whiskey and Soda, a new play by Ben Randall who currently lives in Peasmarsh, is set in December of 1979 at the British Embassy in Washington DC.…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
The Future is Degrowth By M Schmelzer, A Vetter & A Vansintjan Published by Verso at £, available at Bookbuster Review by Tim Barton In the last Bookbuster review, we…
HIP LIT REVIEW
In Love With Hell Hastings Book Launch for Respected Local Writer Long established writer William Palmer has a string of novels, poetry collections and critical reviews for literary journals under…
All at Sea
By Gareth Stevens It is perhaps apt that, in the year in which Hastings Contemporary celebrates the 10-year anniversary of the building it inhabits, it chose to host an exhibition…
Dream On
Victoria Kingham is captivated by a fairytale production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream In the abstractly beautiful, slightly other-worldly, Victorian-Gothic setting of Fairlight Hall, we saw what must be one…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Concepts for a Democratic and Ecological Society By Yavor Tarinski Published by Zero Books at £, available at Bookbuster Review by Tim Barton We live in a culture defined by…
Godot – Still Waiting
Beckett’s enigmatic characters, Vladimir and Estragon, have been waiting for almost 70 years for their titular protagonist to appear. To celebrate a landmark Hastings production of the play we offer…
Yoolysees’ Erotic Energy
Review by Helen Drake There was a flurry of activity at the Electro Studios Gallery in Seaside Road over the last couple of weekends of June which was featuring a…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet By George Monbiot Published by Penguin Books at £20; £18 at Bookbuster Review Patrick Nother According to the King James Authorised Version…
BOOK REVIEW
Imagine a City: A Pilot Sees the World By Mark Vanhoenacker Published by Chatto & Windus, 2022 Non-fiction, Hardback £ Review by Dave Young Part travelogue, part memoir, Mark Vanhoenacker’s…
Twitching the Veils of Normality
By Helen Murphy and Nick Pelling It is an odd thing but sometimes a familiar scene can suddenly seem strange. The banal momentarily flips itself and appears quite disturbing. The artist…
BOOK REVIEW
Rhode Island Red By Charlotte Carter Republished by Baskerville, 2022Crime fiction, Paperback £ Review by Dave Young If ever there was an underrated literary heroine it is Nanette Hayes, the…
REVIEW: Slum of Legs and Codex Serafini rock The Brass
By Ben Thompson The third and last of this spring’s run of Hastings Sonics events brought two of Brighton’s leading bands to The Brass: Slum of Legs and Codex Serafini.…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
The Starmer Project: A Journey to the Right By Terry Eagleton Published by Verso Books, 2022, paperback, rrp £,available at Bookbuster, 39 Queens Road Review by Tim Barton With our…
Bricolage Writ Large
By Nick Pelling and Helen Murphy Georgie Wheeler is an intriguing artist. Her work is painterly and meticulous but also almost rude and in your face. Her playfully disturbing visions…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Hastings Town Centre Heritage Trail Published by Hastings & St Leonards Society, 2022, pamphlet, rrp £4Available at Bookbuster, 39 Queens Road Review by Tim Barton Sometimes Hastings New Town seems…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Winston Churchill: His times, his crimes By Tariq AliPublished by Verso, 2022, hardback, rrp £25Available at Bookbuster, 39 Queens Road Review by Tim Barton ‘A most intolerable ruffian, a disgrace…
Time for a Picnic
By Sonny Levitt It was through my mum – a fount of knowledge for all things Hastings – that I first heard of Picnic. So, I cycled over and peered…
THEATRE REVIEW
An Offer You’d Rather Refuse By Jo Broughton Gangster Number 1 is a fully committed dive deep into a Kray-like gangster’s life and the underbelly of London that was his…
New Model Arty
Gareth Stevens discovers how emerging younger artists are being helped by an agile collective on a Bexhill industrial estate. Flatland Projects is one of the increasing number of community based…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Half-Earth Socialism By Troy Vettese & Drew Pendergrass Published by Verso, 2022Available at Bookbuster, 39 Queens Road Review by Tim Barton Recommended by Andreas Malm, author of How to Blow…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Unwritten Rule By Stephen Green, Thomas Legg, and Martin DonnellyPublished by Haus Publishing, 2021, paperback, £ at Bookbuster, 39 Queens Road Review by Tim Barton Here is another short volume…
Neither Here Nor There
By Helen Murphy and Nick Pelling If you have ever stood at the shore’s edge and stared at the waves and the endless grey sea, you might appreciate Seamus Heaney’s thought…
Kamikaze Komedy
By Lucy Pappas, Susie Barnard, Sam Summerscales and Vicki Jones The stage was set for two hilarious comedy acts, Josephine Lacey and Tony Law. The audience was welcomed by a…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Self and Society Essays by various authors Published by Haus Publishing, 2021, paperback, £ at Bookbuster, 39 Queens Road Review by Tim Barton Here we have a short volume from…