Category: Book reviews
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Records, rivers, rats and a 100-word challenge
Last chance to enter your short story for 2018 and – the poetry and flash anthology cometh.
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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.
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How to Win at King’s Cross
A review of How to Win at King’s Cross – and some other stuff by Cathy Edmunds
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An Exciting, Revolutionary, Comprehensible Book about Economics
I wondered, when I first picked up Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics and flipped through it, why the story of Copernicus and his revolutionary diagram figured in it.
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On achieving unity in the midst of battle
Like many women recently, I’ve just seen my life implode. This, surprisingly perhaps, is a good thing.
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Stunningly Unexpected Twits
Fasten your seatbelts – we are moving through a patch of turbulence. I had thought it was just me, getting more involved in politics than is good for a person, but when I looked at the lead stories our readers had placed in the final round of our latest competition, and started mentally writing the…
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origami poems and towering stories from Earlyworks Press
The Earlyworks Press anthology origami poems and towering stories – release date, 12th December
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If you didn’t get your fingers in the sparkle jar right away…
First Greta Thunberg, then Chris Packham – What is this, ‘be mean to ASD people’ month? This is a re-posting of my piece about Chris Packham’s book, along with links to a petition defending him.
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Bookshops of the Borders
Bookshops of the Borders – NOT Borders Bookshops, which are (or were) something else.
Kay Green 