by Frances Crawford A Good, Good Book. It has been a good year for reading through my TBR pile.* I have particularly enjoyed Frankly, Nicola Sturgeon’s memoir, and, in fiction, I was captivated by Will and Testament by Vigdis Hjorth, a book recommended by Sturgeon during Covid, The Girls by Lori Lansens, first published inContinue reading “A Bad, Bad, Place.”
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Facts are Subversive
The trouble with having a large tsundoku pile is that there is often a significant time lapse between buying a book and reading it. This has been compounded, in my case, by a lengthy period when my reading mojo had left the building. Books which were topical when I bought them are less so nowContinue reading “Facts are Subversive”
Refugee Stories by Refugees
So much of the chatter around refugee stories are from people who are neither refugees nor involved with the support of refugees. Refugee Radio Times: Voices of Asylum, Identity and Resistance, edited by Lorna Stephenson and Stephen Silverwood, is a welcome focus on the lived experiences of refugees from very different backgrounds and with differentContinue reading “Refugee Stories by Refugees”
Significantly Different 