Category: book shops

• The Problem with Wilful Blindness

  

  It’s understandable – it’s well-intentioned. It doesn’t work.

  Kay Green

  July 7, 2020

  activism, Book reviews, book shops, Politics, prejudice, Uncategorized, women

  Boot Boys, Dawn Butler, Fascism, JK Rowling, Margaret Atwood, Owen Jones, Philip Pullman, racism, Reni Eddo-Lodge, sexism

• Read this, Sir Keir

  

  Recommend a book to Sir Keir

  Kay Green

  July 3, 2020

  activism, book shops, Labour, Politics, prejudice, Uncategorized

  Anti-racism, Black Lives Matter, race, racism, Reni Eddo-Lodge, Sir Keir Starmer

• Poets – three weeks to go!

  

  Closing dates and news about poetry, flash fiction and short story comps

  Kay Green

  June 8, 2020

  book shops, Earlyworks Press, flash fiction, Poetry, Short stories, Uncategorized

  Earlyworks Press, Flash Fiction Competition, Poetry Competition, Short Story Competition

• Time to shop local!

  

  Have you explored what’s on offer closer to home?

  Kay Green

  April 21, 2020

  book shops, economics, Hastings, Uncategorized

  Covid-19, Hastings Borough Council, Hastings shops, Lockdown, Queens Road, Shop local

• Words from before the world went quiet

  

  Here comes the new anthology!

  Kay Green

  April 20, 2020

  Book reviews, book shops, Circaidy Gregory Press, Earlyworks Press, flash fiction, Poetry, Short stories, Uncategorized

  AKS Shaw, Alan Kennedy, Bethany Ridley-Duff, Brian Charlton, Bruce Harris, Catherin Westwell, Cecile Bol, Cedrick Fox-Kirk, Christopher M James, David Mathews, Dominic James, George Cassidy Payne, Gillian Brown, Janet H Swinney, John H Moody, Kate Twitchin, Lisa Reily, Mandy Pannett, Mike Wade, Paula Balfe, Philip Thomas, R D Gardner, Roger Elkin, Roland Miles, Sadie Thompson, Sally V Pearson, Steve May, This Rome drwons slowly, Tony Noon

• Of Migrants and Distressed Gentlefolk

  

  Holiday Reads that aren’t always big fat novels. These are the books that grabbed me in Buxton bookshops, on my holidays this year…

  Kay Green

  October 30, 2019

  Book reviews, book shops, Uncategorized

  Buxton, From Riches to a Ruin, High Peak Bookshop, NoViolet Bulawayo, Paul Halksworth, Scriveners bookshop, Sutton Scarsdale, We Need New Names

• Tickling the Dragon – bilingual fest, photos and reviews

  

  Joc Simms’ book brought together some never-before seen photos of the soldier-victims of nuclear tests, some very personal histories and her breath-taking poetry about nuclear war. Here are some of the events and some of the reactions…

  Kay Green

  October 30, 2019

  Book reviews, book shops, Poetry, Uncategorized

  Jocelyn Simms, Segora, Tickling the Dragon

• They got the money, they got the corporate media – but we got The Many!

  

  Labour Roots – For the many, by the many

  Kay Green

  October 12, 2019

  activism, book shops, Corbyn, Election, Hastings, Labour, NHS, Poetry, Politics, Uncategorized, Unite

  Barry Gardiner, By the Many, Diane Abbott, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Roots, Maya Evans, Penny Pepper, Peter Chowney

• DON’T BUY THIS BOOK! DON’T GO TO THAT MEETING! DON’T LISTEN TO THESE PEOPLE!

  

  Bad News for Labour: Antisemitism, the Party and Public Belief

  Kay Green

  October 3, 2019

  Book reviews, book shops, Corbyn, Election, Labour, media, Politics, prejudice, Uncategorized

  anti-semitism, Antony Lerman, David Miller, Greg Phio, Justin Schlosberg, Labour Party, Mike Berry, Verso Books

• Read old books, write new stories

  

  Read old books, write new stories

  Kay Green

  September 16, 2019

  Book reviews, book shops, Earlyworks Press, Uncategorized

  Always Coming Home, Sci-fi, The Dispossessed, Ursula Le Guin