Category: Book reviews
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The past is a dangerous country – guest post by S. P. Moss
Whatever happened to those good old ripping yarns?
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They Shall Not Pass
A review of the showing of Nae Parasan in Hastings, and the debates that followed
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Books are your friends, even when they seem to lead you into trouble
Expanding on the ‘ten beloved books’ game on Facebook
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No news from anywhere
Remember the days when bookshops did not expect to be held personally responsible for, or assumed to be in agreement with, every line of every book in their shop?
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Sexuality and Synchronicity in Salop
Having spent over a year thrashing around in the gender wars and a weekend of glorious feminist goings on at Filia 2018, I suppose it’s not surprising that Human Aggression grabbed my eye on a book stall when I finally got myself off on holiday but Storr’s book did present me with A Big Surprise.
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Pleasant distractions
As Shaun Bythell of Wigtown Bookshop demonstrates in the pages of his diary, people who depend on book sales for a living in the 21st century have a definite Black Books air about them.