Not since Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum has the pains of growing up been rendered this powerfully – Blick , Zurich I'm a kid at heart. Any book with the word 'superhero' in the title, the tag line, the blurb or in a review of the...
Topics: Freddie Highmore, McCarten, Superman

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Scots is English in its underwear. It's difficult to be pretentious in a language like that. - William McIlvanney McIlvanney has pointed out more than once that the lower down the social ladder you get, the more metaphorical, the more...
Topics: Doric, Glasgow, Glaswegian, Lallans, Scottish

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Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar – Pablo Picasso This is book about ordinary things, getting you hair done, having breakfast, going to church and eating gobstoppers. It's...
Topics: Liz Gallagher, poetry, Salt

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Here’s a link to Part one if you missed it.   What Where was Beckett's last play produced following a request for a new work for the 1983 Autumn Festival in Graz, Austria. It was written between February and March 1983 initially in French..
Topics: Beckett, director, What Where

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  Before I get down to the nitty-gritty of reviewing this novel we need a short history lesson: Lidice (German: Liditz ) is a village in the Czech Republic just north-west of Prague . It is built on the site of a previous village of the same...
Topics: Holocaust, Maureen Myant, Striped Pyjamas

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