Category: Book reviews
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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.
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Reader, writer or publisher? two books to help you on your way…
Join in, win some cash, get published…
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On reviewing a book I haven’t read
Well I’ve never done this before. The book is Citizen Clem by John Bew. The pic at the top of this article is from the Ken Loach film, Spirit of ’45. When you’ve read this book review, if you’re interested in all the talk of Jeremy Corbyn being like (or not like) Clement Attlee, I…
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It’s not the end of the world… or is it?
I put a status update on Facebook expressing my frustration about all these EU experts around me thinking Brexit is a more important issue than all the lives that are falling apart and being lost around us right now.
Kay Green 