Book Review: The Book of Joys by John Saul with images by Albert Irvin
Experience is elusive. Mindful of its gossamer caprices, John Saul sets short stories as snares in...
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Mancunians: Where do we start, where do I begin? by David Scott
Some days it seems as though Manchester’s self-mythologising has bloated from a simple...
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Not What We Were Expecting: Alistair McGowan on his debut poetry collection
Like many schoolboys, there was a lot about poetry that I struggled with. Why was Keats writing...
Read MoreThe book that changed my life: Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
I read the book that changed my life, the one I can’t stop telling people about, last year. Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman has completely changed the way I see the world. Kahneman is a psychologist who researches the...
Read MoreThe book that changed my life: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury’s landmark 1953 dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 is not a book about censorship. Nor is it a book about firemen or the physical destruction of books. It’s not even, as Bradbury suggests, a book about how the...
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