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BOOKBUSTER REVIEW: Challenging the Hope Deficit
Making A MovementBy Barney CullumPublished by Acropolis, 2023, rrp £ BY TIM BARTON Those paying attention to world affairs today know there is something of a ‘hope’ deficit. It is…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW – Oil Be Damned: Part Five
Extractive Capitalism By Laleh KhaliliPublished by Profile, 2025, rrp £ BY TIM BARTON Khalili’s new book is unexpectedly timely. Its subtitle is ‘how commodities and cronyism drive the global economy’.…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW: The Lie of the Land
By Guy ShrubsolePublished by Penguin Books, 2025, rrp £, Bookbuster price £ BY TIM BARTON Guy Shrubsole is the author of the bestselling The Lost Rainforests of Britain. His latest…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW: Terminal Transmissions
By Paul GreenPublished by Terminal Press, 2025, rrp £ BY TIM BARTON This new book by locally based author and poet Paul Green channels the spirit of J G Ballard.…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW: Hellebore’s 2024 Yuletide Hauntings & other Occult and Uncanny Zines
REVIEW BY TIM BARTON On December 7th this year, Bookbuster ran a stall at the Mint House in Pevensey. This was a great venue for an esoteric fayre, and this…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW: Weird Walk
By ‘Weird Walk’!Published by Watkins Books, 2023 rrp £ BY TIM BARTON The Weird Walk zine has been selling well at Bookbuster for a while now, and has reached issue…
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…
Reading the Runes
Ben Cornwell visits Hastings’ independent bookshops to see how they have fared during the pandemic years. There’s nothing quite like that feeling of stepping into a bookshop. As a child…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Climate Crisis & The Global Green New Deal By Noam Chomsky, Robert Pollin and C J Polychroniou Published by Verso Books, 2020, paperback rrp £ / Bookbuster price £ Review…
Bookbuster Book Review
Fully Automated Luxury CommunismBy Aaron BastaniVerso hardcover in stock at Bookbuster & Printed Matter Bookshop, £ REVIEW BY P. NOTHER According to Theresa May, those of us who are against Brexit…
Bookbuster Book Review
Your Baby’s Best ShotBy Stacy Mintzer Herlihy & E. Allison HagoodHardback in stock at Bookbuster, £ REVIEW BY TIM BARTON The values of the Enlightenment were hard won, and harder…
Really Independent Bookshop Week
Hastings & St Leonards. 15th June – 22nd June Four booksellers have clubbed together to run a special bookshop week, with a series of events! We are all local independent…
Really Independent Bookshop Week
Hastings & St Leonards ‘Really Independent Bookshop Week’, 2019 is running from Saturday June 15th to Saturday June 22nd. Literary events will be run across the week at four venues…
Bookbuster Book Review
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…
Write On In Hastings: Tom O’Brien
HIP Literature Editor PETE DONOHUE catches up with fellow Hastings-based Irish writer Tom O’Brien I started writing seriously over 25 years ago. Oh, I had always been a bit of…
Bookbuster Book Review
How to Dismantle the NHS in 10 Easy Stepsby Dr Youssef El-GingihyPublished by Zero Books (updated 2nd Edition) RRP £, Printed Matter and Bookbuster price £10 REVIEW BY LEE HUMPHRIES…
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Unlocking Sustainable Citiesby Paul ChattertonPublished by Pluto, RRP £ Review by Tim Barton Towns and cities across the world are suffering an on-going assault on their diverse systems, and need…
Roundabout By Mel Wright
Chris Connelley feels the love with a heart- warming tale of everyday folk fighting against all odds Avid readers of this column may recall a review of Mel Wright’s previous…
The Christmas Tree
By Roy Browning with illustrations by Mike Raxworthy reviewed by Pete Donohue When Phil and Ann Gill turned up with a typewritten poem at local illustrator Mike Raxworthy's studio he…
Bookbuster Book Review
Dream Brother the lives & music of Jeff & Tim Buckley By David Browne Fourth Estate, RRP £, available at Bookbuster for £ Review by Tim Barton Both Jeff and…