Category: book shops
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Beauty is still dying
When I read Sheri S Tepper’s ‘Beauty’ back in the early ‘90s, I thought she had done me an injury. I enjoyed it, but the Ending (not the ending of the book, The Ending) was just too dark. Not fair. I just read it again, here in 2020 and, when I got to the bit…
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In the Absence of Hard Evidence
In the absence of hard evidence of a divine engineer in the sky, I’d say the patterns in your mind are who you are. This is my thought for the day because it became necessary to clean and decorate the back room, and to do that, it was necessary to move two wallfuls of books,…
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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…
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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…
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They got the money, they got the corporate media – but we got The Many!
Labour Roots – For the many, by the many
Kay Green 