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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Smoking Herb & Other Stories By John D RobinsonAnalog Submission Press Review by Pete Donohue A title may not mean what you think it does. This isn’t a tale about sucking on marijuana spliffs. The eponymous main story here refers…
Online Art Shows Worth a Look
Tempo Arts Tempo Artsis delighted to be working with five international artists to present Your Place, a new digital online project which offers perspectives during the lockdown and beyond. Your Place launches in July and continues through November 2020 featuring…
Festival by the Lake Online
By Gareth Stevens It was inevitable that the Festival by the Lake would be cancelled this year given the current situation. However a similar inevitability meant that Polly Gifford, the event’s chief organiser, would not be deterred. In an epiphanic…
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Cassidy’s Cross By Tom O’Brien Review by Elly Gibson Cassidy’s Cross is set in the fictional village of Doonbay in the South East of Ireland. It’s the 1960s and rural life seems pretty simple and ; On the surface the main…
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Turbulent Spinsters: Women’s Fight for the Vote in Hastings and St LeonardsBy Ann Kramer Review by Ben Bruges Most of social historian Ann Kramer’s meticulous research comes from the Hastings Observer’s records, and one of the interests in the book…