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Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and the Blue Rider – Review
By Clare Jenkins The front cover of Expressionists shows a mustard-coloured tiger looking warily over its shoulder at us, amid ... -
How The Beatles Rocked the World by Stephen F. Kelly – Review
By Clare Jenkins The old saying is ‘If you can remember the Sixties, you weren’t there’. Stephen F. Kelly remembers ... -
Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920 – Review
By Clare Jenkins Artemisia Gentileschi’s Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting shows a woman at an artist’s easel, brown apron ... -
Goodbye To Russia by Sarah Rainsford – Review
By Barney Bardsley The beginning of Sarah Rainsford’s story is not on page one of this book, but on page ... -
A Mudlarking Year by Lara Maiklem – Review
By David Schuster Lara Maiklem is a magician, pulling beauty out of the ooze of the River Thames both literally ... -
Putin and the Return of History by Martin Sixsmith, with Daniel Sixsmith – Review
By Barney Bardsley Hard to forget the euphoria of November 1989: the fall of the Berlin Wall; the collapse of ... -
Prospect Cottage: Derek Jarman’s House by Gilbert McCarragher – Review
By Barney Bardsley Prospect Cottage stands in solitary splendour on the wild shingle beach at Dungeness. Its canary yellow window ... -
The Stirrings by Catherine Taylor – Review
By Clare Jenkins In 1977, Ian Dury released his song, ‘Reasons to be Cheerful Pt 3’. It included references to ... -
Beyond Reasonable Doubt by Philip Mantle and Irena McCammon Scott – Book Review
By Dominic Picksley Roswell and Rendlesham Forest remain two of the most famous UFO cases of all time, incidents from ... -
Steel City Readers by Mary Grover – Review
By Clare Jenkins When Sheffield’s Firth Park branch library opened in 1930, Jack Walker, one of its first librarians, recalled: ... -
Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women by Victoria Smith – Review
By Clare Jenkins Thirty years ago, way before LGBTQI+ politics became A Thing, I did an MA in Women’s Studies. ... -
Second City by Richard Vinen – Review
By Clare Jenkins The theatre critic Kenneth Tynan once described his home town of Birmingham as “the ugliest city in ...
