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From Love Bugs to Period Taboos: Kendal Mountain Festival 2
The Kendal Mountain Festival showcases some of the most influential explorers, books, and films in the industry. One of the many documentary features …
Read moreTough Women: Kendal Mountain Festival
The Kendal Mountain Festival is on now and on demand until 31 December 2020. Tickets from £5.50, with some free events. On Friday 20 November at the …
Read moreThe Lives and Extraordinary Adventures of Fifteen Tramp Writers from the Golden Age of Vagabondage
Jim Phelan, in collection of Ian Cutler An extensive list of words for people of no fixed abode in the introduction to this book reminds us how …
Read moreTiger Girl
Tiger Girl shimmers with beauty and rage: for every exquisite description of a bird or tiger, there’s an incident of cruelty and horror, unfolded on t …
Read moreThe Distance
Great boxing matches are ‘allegories authored in blood’, wrote Budd Schulberg. It’s quoted late on in Ivan Vladislavíc’s sixth novel, which, among oth …
Read moreWell-laid Hedges and Cider
‘Coming to Mrs Wallet’s?’ Tom Johns was lighting his bicycle lamp, shielding the rather damp match that he had taken from a small tin and struck on hi …
Read moreThe Rhino Conspiracy
The Rhino Conspiracy by Peter Hain is a dynamic, fast-paced thriller based in apartheid South Africa. It is emotional and compelling, educational and …
Read moreJust So You Know: Essays of Experience
What does it mean to be marginalised? While the term itself is eschewed by some contributors, this is the question that the essay collection Just So Y …
Read moreGwen Davies reviews Y Gymru ‘Ddu’ a’r Ddalen ‘Wen’: Aralledd ac Amlddiwylliannedd mewn Ffuglen Gymreig, er 1990 by Lisa Sheppard
Gwen Davies stakes a claim for fiction in the creation of empathy, that missing life-skill in those at risk of mental health breakdown and lawbreaking …
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