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Friday, 15 February 2019
'Tis not wealth makes men
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Moonfleet is a cracking good children's adventure story with a moral. It begins with John Trenchard, aged 15, inspired by a story of b...
Saturday, 9 February 2019
Regretting is always pointless
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" Regretting is always pointless, since there is no undoing ". So says Claudia Hampton as she lies dying in a hospital bed. She h...
Friday, 1 February 2019
People like us don't go to plays, let alone act in them
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An Awfully Big Adventure opens with a mystery. A girl, who we soon discover is Stella Bradshaw, insists she's " not the only one...
Thursday, 24 January 2019
The past is a foreign country
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In The Go-Between , Leo Colston, aged 60, finds his childhood diary and through its pages relives a traumatic event that impacted the course...
Monday, 14 January 2019
Fast-paced page-turner for horror aficionados
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A creepy castle, a woman in distress, disturbing dreams and much, much more. Rosemary's Baby is a classic gothic horror story that take...
Friday, 11 January 2019
What happens when the ones we love are enemies of the state
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The ones we love ... are enemies of the state, writes Kamila Shamsie in the epigraph to her book Home Fire . The story is about what happen...
Wednesday, 28 November 2018
The giddy carousel of pop
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Oh, the " Giddy Carousel of Pop "! Mark Ellen's amusing and nostalgic memoir brought back many happy music-based memories: Dad...
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