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How Comics Work by Dave Gibbons and Tim Pilcher – Review
By Roger Crow I wanted to do two things for a living at the age of 16: create comics, and ... -
A Useful Fiction: Adventures in British Democracy by Patrick Hannan – Review
By Rich Barnett This reviewer has already spoken highly of the late Patrick Hannan’s When Arthur Met Maggie and in ... -
Buddhism Illuminated: Manuscript Art from South East Asia by San San May; Jan Igunma – ...
By Barney Bardsley The rich and venerable legacy of Buddhist thought and philosophy seems to hold an ever-increasing fascination for ... -
No Live Files Remain by András Forgách – Review
By Barney Bardsley Imagine this. You have a glamorous, energetic, gifted mother. She is a nurse. She is an organiser. ... -
Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading by Lucy Mangan – Review
By Rachael Popow I don’t just have fond memories of my favourite children’s books, I still have a lot of ... -
You Say You Want a Revolution? – Review
By Victoria Holdsworth This small hardback book gives you an in-your-face insight into the swinging sixties, and it is suitable ... -
Spaceport Earth by Joe Pappalardo – Review
By Roger Crow In 2011, while on a Press trip to Florida, I settled into my Orlando bed after a ... -
The Physics of Super Heroes by James Kakalios – Review
By Victoria Holdsworth Hands up if you are a comic book geek? If you love them as much as I ... -
Strength in Stillness: The Power of Transcendental Meditation by Bob Roth – Review
By Barney Bardsley Just those two words – Transcendental Meditation – are enough to send you wafting off on a ... -
When Arthur Met Maggie by Patrick Hannan – Review
By Rich Barnett What ifs? History and politics is full of such questions, and Patrick Hannan’s When Arthur Met Maggie, ... -
Dickens and Christmas by Lucinda Hawksley – Review
By Karl Hornsey When Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843, little could he have known the impact it ... -
The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander – Review
By Rich Barnett Shackleton’s failure to reach the South Pole has never truly been seen as anything near a disaster, ...