Category: Book reviews

• Basic Truths About Basic Income

  

  Basic income and how we can make it happen – an evening with Guy Standing

  Kay Green

  April 3, 2019

  Book reviews, book shops, economics, Labour, Politics, Uncategorized

  Basic Income, Guy Standing, John MacDonnell, Labour Party Manifesto, Printed Matter Bookshop, Printworks, The People’s Chancellor

• 50 shades of grey matter

  

  The new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the female brain

  Kay Green

  March 27, 2019

  Book reviews, prejudice, Uncategorized, women

  Aston University Brain Centre, Neurotrash, Professor Gina Rippon, The Gendered Brain

• Timothy’s Gate

  

  A magic, hidden world just for you, just when you need it, what could go wrong?

  Kay Green

  March 26, 2019

  Book reviews, Circaidy Gregory Press, Uncategorized

  Books, Children’s fantasy books, Circaidy Gregory Press, High King, Sue Hoffmann, Timothy’s Gate

• The past is a dangerous country – guest post by S. P. Moss

  

  Whatever happened to those good old ripping yarns?

  Kay Green

  March 25, 2019

  Book reviews, Circaidy Gregory Press, Uncategorized

  Circaidy Gregory Press, S P Moss, The Al-Eden Emergency, The Bother in Burmeon, The Trouble in Teutonia

• They Shall Not Pass

  

  A review of the showing of Nae Parasan in Hastings, and the debates that followed

  Kay Green

  February 17, 2019

  activism, Book reviews, Hastings, Labour, media, Politics, Uncategorized, women

  Andrea Needham, Bob Fulton, Emily Johns, Hastings Refugees Project, Nae parasan, Peter Chowney, The Hammerblow

• What’s in a name?

  

  What is Earlyworks Press and why is it called Earlyworks Press?

  Kay Green

  January 25, 2019

  Book reviews, Circaidy Gregory Press, Earlyworks Press, Short stories, Uncategorized

  Books, Catherine Edmunds, Christine Tennent, Circaidy Gregory Press, Earlyworks Press, flash fiction, Joanna Campbell, reading, S P Moss, Short stories, Sue Hoffmann, Writing, writing competitions

• The 100-word Live Challenge

  

  the 100-word challenge at Printed Matter Bookshop, celebrating the release of ‘Records, Rivers and Rats’ – prizewinning poetry and flash fiction from Earlyworks Press

  Kay Green

  December 17, 2018

  Book reviews, book shops, Earlyworks Press, Hastings, Poetry, Uncategorized

  Book reviews, Books, Competitions, flash fiction, Poetry, Publishing, reading, Short stories, Writing

• Trigger warnings all round!

  

  Results of the Earlyworks Press short story competition, some trigger warnings and a 100-word challenge in Hastings

  Kay Green

  December 13, 2018

  Book reviews, Earlyworks Press, Poetry, Short stories, Uncategorized

  Book reviews, Books, Competitions, free press, Free Speech, Neil Gaiman, Poetry, Printed Matter Bookshop, Publishing, reading, Short stories, Writing, writing competitions

• Books are your friends, even when they seem to lead you into trouble

  

  Expanding on the ‘ten beloved books’ game on Facebook

  Kay Green

  November 10, 2018

  Book reviews, Politics, prejudice, Uncategorized, women

  Book reviews, Books, C S Lewis, Enid Blyton, Equalities, J R R Tolkien, sex and gender, Trans kids

• 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?

  Kay Green

  November 7, 2018

  Book reviews, book shops, Politics, Uncategorized, women

  Equalities, News From Nowhere, sex and gender