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The Metal MountainBy John HealyPublished by Etruscan Books (2019) £ Review by Howard Colyer It begins with a party that doesn’t happen – at least not for the young family who try to celebrate the queen’s coronation. They are asked…
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Horizon By Barry LopezHardback £25In stock at Bookbusters, £20 Review by Tim Barton Arctic Dreams, reviewed last issue, was Lopez’s second book, preceded by the excellent Of Wolves & Men, and since it was published he has published relatively little:…
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Rocking & RhymingBuddy Holly: Learning the Game By Spencer LeighPublisher: McNidder & Grace, price £15 (Foreword by Frank Ifield) Joinedupwriting By Roger McGoughPublisher: Penguin Viking, price £ Reviews by John Cornelius As Buddy Holly’s life and career were tragically cut short…
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The next instalment of ‘Positive views’ book reviews is here – and I’m looking at the late great Ivan Illich. Deschooling SocietyCelebration of Awareness: A Call for Institutional Revolution Tools for ConvivialityAll by Ivan Illich Review By Tim Barton (Part…
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The Luckiest Guy Alive by John Cooper Clarke Hardback £ Picador The Language of Kindness (A Nurse’s Story) by Christie Watson Paperback £ Vintage REVIEW BY JOHN CORNELIUS THE (BAD) LANGUAGE OF POETRY“A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness, and…
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A New Politics From The Left by Hilary Wainwright Published by Polity, rrp £ Review by Tim Barton In the late 60s and 70s there was a refreshing growth of cultural trends towards small-scale green self-sufficient egalitarian ideas. Many of these…
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To Tame the Sentry Being by Michael Georgiou Published by Book Guild, rrp £ REVIEW BY THEO PILGRIM This is the first book of The Endless Dreams Saga, by St Leonards resident Michael Georgiou. The author says that ‘the story…
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Wages for Housework by Louise Toupin Published by Pluto Press, rrp £ Review by Jane Sarre This is the strangest book review I’ve offered since that one about the book I refused to read. In this case, I didn’t want to read…
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Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in Without Going Crazy by Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone Published 2012, New World Library Reviewed by Jane Sarre Ecophilosopher Joanna Macy has a track record of five decades of activism in…
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Brexit: Britain’s Great Food Gamble? A brief survey of our current crises, via books by John Humphrys and Dennis Pirages REVIEW BY TIM BARTON In 2000 we had a Kentish blockade on refineries that led, after three days, to a…