If even the title of my last post – 10 long books to read on lockdown – was enough to make you…
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With summer approaching and some ‘social distancing’ likely to be required even if quarantine is lifted, for those of us with cancelled…
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My Mummy is a Monster, My Children are Monsters, perhaps two phrases that are being used increasingly as we enter the Xth…
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In his introduction to The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories, Murakami Haruki describes the collection as giving ‘the same kind of…
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There’s a school of thought that The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger’s classic tale of teenage angst, has the shortest of windows.…
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October is the UK’s Black History Month and so Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi was a serendipitous find at the library last week.…
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Last Respects Rakuko Rubin Translated by Jay Rubin An email from her mother brought Mayu the news that Shota’s mother had died.…
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There comes a time in any young life where the senses are suddenly open and art of any genus strikes like a…
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Book ReviewsFeaturedLiverpoolTen Years On The Parish: The Autobiography and Letters of George Garrett
I have often wished I could step back in time to see the Mersey in its golden years brimming with vessels setting…
