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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?
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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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It could have been me
One woman’s story: it’s been a year since Maria McLachlan was attacked. This guest post by Paula Boulton is an example of the journey many of us have been on in the last 12 months.
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To my friends
***update*** All sorted out now – but thanks to everyone who shared, and helped to get WPUK back in the public eye.
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A woman with a penis? A commentary on various gender-warriors
A commentary on ‘a woman with a penis’, the Morning Star letter and what happened at Pride London
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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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