by Kevin Patrick McCann Raise a flag, found a countryOn someone else’s land,Wait a while, then expand:Pick a village, attack at dawn,Spare no-one, make no secretOf what... Continue reading
by Rita di Santo The highly anticipated debut of Laura Carreira’s “On Falling,” winner of the Sutherland Award for Best First Feature at the 2024 BFI London... Continue reading
Review by Chris Searle of the above book, by Daniel Spicer (Repeater Books) As soon as I began to read this riveting biography of the German saxophonist... Continue reading
by Jenny Farrell Heinrich Mann, the elder brother of Thomas Mann, and in his own right one of the most significant German writers of the 20th century,... Continue reading
The Dark Ages by Dennis Broe is a noir murder mystery. It’s about a time when people with money influenced people with political power to restructure the United... Continue reading
Bitterly, I was forced to be absent from the Cockpit Theatre swansong event for Smokestack Books last December due to a combination of ill health, stormy weather... Continue reading
Folks, listen up! We’ve got a great deal here – this is the mega deal of the century folks, a fantastic deal we’ve worked on, tremendous. We’re... Continue reading
Orgreave after Guernica, by Bob Olley I wouldn’t go back I should have but I couldn’t.It wasn’t an end but a beginning.At Nantgarw the black Taff swelled... Continue reading
but we never really liked warit killed our Dads’ Dads’ Dadsthat left our sons’ sons’ sonsto become ‘professional’ atkilling whilst learning howto clean a gun & boots.... Continue reading