Three weeks ago, I became a grandmother to little girl called Emerald Green. I keep saying it’s wonderful but, truthfully, I’ve been unnerved by her. Almost immediately, my mind got busy mapping out all the dark corners and...
Read MoreCancel your 2020 winter getaway. Holidays are off. In fact, with lockdown 2.0 now in force, you can’t even go on a city break in the UK. You could, however, journey somewhere new via a travel book. Perhaps you’ll read a tale of...
Read MoreI’m an avid reader of non-fiction. I thoroughly enjoy taking a peek at other people’s lives and, more importantly, learning something new about the world we live in. Usually I’ll have a fiction and a non-fiction book on the go...
Read MoreThe Left needs a new language. If Kristen Ghodsee’s collection of five potted biographies of noteworthy 20th century East European Socialist women, a sort of lives of the Communist saints, has a hairline crack running through...
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