Blogs in June 2017

Ghost Town 15th June 2017

1981. Coventry, city of Two Tone and Ska, is riven with battles between skinheads and young Asians. Photographer Baz – ‘too Paki to be white, too gora to be desi’ – is capturing the conflict on film. Unemployed graduate...

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The Many 15th June 2017

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 Timothy Buchannan buys an abandoned house on the edge of an isolated village on the coast, sight unseen. When he sees the state of it he questions the wisdom of his move,...

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Spice 11th June 2017

This thrilling unpredictable, yet sometimes hilarious quest will have you mesmerised. Ben Bakewell, the master pâtissier at one of London’s leading restaurants, befriends Ravuth, a refugee from the killing fields of Cambodia who fled to England as the Khmer...

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Day of the Dead 7th June 2017

A serial killer. A hero to some. A wanted criminal to others. The man who calls himself Vindici broke out of prison last year. Now he’s filmed himself torturing and killing paedophiles in Liverpool’s affluent suburbs. Half the city...

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Too Narrow to Swing a Cat: Going Nowhere in Particular on the English Waterways 2nd June 2017

She was particularly taken with the small narrow ledges that ran along either side of the boat. For a cat, four inches is an airport runway – she could dance a Moonwalk along them on her two hind legs,...

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