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  If there’s something that we need in these strange times that we are continuing to live through it’s a booster. I’m not talking about Covi...

  The first thing I love about this book is that you cannot easily place it into a genre. The desire to compartmentalise everything and labe...

  The Royal Game is a novel that is based on the Paston letters. The Pastons were a Norfolk family who rose from humble beginnings to become...

 Thinkers and Doubters is a collection of reflective poetry and prose musing on the many meanings of life, love and the human condition. And...

  Like many people I first became aware of Mike Leigh with the television presentation of Abigail‘s Party. A notable occasion because I can ...

As a reader of fiction, primarily,  I have my favourite authors. Writers whose work I seek out avidly. Up to two or three years ago I couldn...

Frida Kahlo and her work has fascinated me since I first beheld one of her self portraits in a book. I then saw a film about her which motiv...