HIP READ: Our Friends in Berlin By Anthony Quinn
Was there a Nazi fifth column in Hastings during the war which met in ‘a pub at the far corner of Warrior Square’? There certainly is in Anthony Quinn’s latest novel Our Friends in Berlin in which British Nazi sympathisers…
HIP READ – Paper And Ink #13
Tales From The Bar Side Hastings’ own local literary zine has just published its thirteenth issue. Paper And Ink has already achieved cult status in the national and international underground poetry and short story scene and its limited print run…
HIP READ – Coming Home For Good Personal Reflections On Homelessness By Roger Nuttall
Hastings self-published author Roger Nuttall is a nurse co-ordinator for Hastings Homeless Service. Coming Home For Good, as the back page blurb explains, charts his personal journey from teenage rebellion and a period of penniless itinerancy in the USA through…
HIP READ: Quietly Occupied by Rose Miller
Artist, writer and long-time St Leonards resident Rose Miller has written a first novel set in Normandy under German military occupation in the Second World War. It chronicles the life of a remote village which is taken over by the…
HIP READ: Sussex Horrors
HIP READ Sussex Horrors By Jonathan Broughton, Mark Cassell & Rayne Hall Three Sussex authors…twelve horror stories. Long term Hastings resident Jonathan Broughton writes fantasy, horror, paranormal and urban stories. Two of his three published novels are set in Hastings and…
HIP READ – An Outlaw in the Making By John D Robinson
The Hastings community is often lauded for both the quality and quantity of its collective creativity. Many manifestations of this can be found writ large upon our streets and festival sites or within our bars, theatres and galleries. It is…