Over the last few years, while writing heritage walking tours of Liverpool, it has fascinated me how many lives Liverpool has had. …
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Book Reviews
Push Process review: Jonathan Walker’s unique view of Venice
by John Maguireby John MaguireI am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and …
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My novel Push Process is about a postgraduate student in Venice who abandons his historical research in the archive to take photographs …
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A thing I never know, when I’m starting out to tell a story about a chap I’ve told a story about before, …
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Book ReviewsFeatured
The Sterns are Listening review: Jonathan Wells’s wonderful NY family tale
by Karl Coppackby Karl CoppackThe Sterns are Listening. Actually, they’re not. The Sterns are doing anything but listening and that’s the problem. It’s that that brings …
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Book Reviews
This House is Haunted review: the stranger side of Enfield
by Karl Coppackby Karl CoppackShortly after lockdown I suggested a trip to my girlfriend. One to Green Lane, Enfield. Not the most romantic or picturesque of …
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Book Reviews
Danny the Champion of the World review: meet Roald Dahl’s mischievous heroes
by Karl Coppackby Karl CoppackSo far in this series I’ve looked at books which informed my teenage political thought (Nineteen Eighty-Four), made me want to become …
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I was a Teenage Christian: Church Youth Culture in Liverpool is a guest post by Jonathan Walker. His book The Angels of …
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Liverpool’s past and present weaves itself around Jack Byrne’s debut novel Under the Bridge. The first part of his Liverpool Mysteries series, …
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Interviews
My Mummy is a Monster! An interview with author Natalie Reeves Billing
by John Maguireby John MaguireMy Mummy is a Monster, My Children are Monsters, perhaps two phrases that are being used increasingly as we enter the Xth …