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Category Archives: 2011

Wish You Were Here – Tamar Yoseloff’s The City With Horns

February 17, 2013

It doesn’t take long to contract cultural flu in Rome. ‘That fountain’s by Bernini, you say? Show me one which …

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Me and my shadow – Egg Printing Explained by Katy Evans-Bush

November 19, 2012

With a jolt I realised that I was standing at the foot of my own grave. Sergeant John Field, 1803339, of …

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I am the invisible man – Olivia McCannon’s Exactly My Own Length

November 12, 2012

Rush hour is cruel to those going nowhere. To stand frozen as the city wheels about, reconfiguring itself for dinners …

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The Old Masters were never wrong about suffering – Olivia Byard’s Strange Horses

September 13, 2012

When I took my wife’s call, I thought she was trapped in the wreckage of a car. Her brain was …

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Matthew Stewart’s Inventing Truth

August 28, 2012

In the family album there’s a snap of a tiny boy pressing his gift of a Matchbox car into the …

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In space no one can hear you scream – Sophie Mayer’s The Private Parts of Girls

July 25, 2012

Buy The Private Parts of Girls from Salt In Sally Potter’s The Tango Lesson, a character called Sally pitches to …

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How I became an Eliot addict – The Waste Land – Faber and Faber – Touch Press

July 24, 2012

Buy The Waste Land app for iPad I usually buy the new phone, or laptop first and then find out …

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Alice Oswald’s Memorial

July 21, 2012

Buy Memorial from Faber and Faber Names assume epic proportions when listed. The Roman Catholic church’s First Eucharistic Prayer seduces …

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The vibrator in the drawer – Leontia Flynn’s Profit and Loss

July 18, 2012

  Buy Profit and Loss from Cape Poetry There is something uncanny about houses. Especially other people’s and especially shared …

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Wendy Cope – Family Values

July 16, 2012

Buy Family Values from Faber and Faber I’ve seen someone recoil from Wendy Cope’s Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis as …

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