As anyone who has emerged into the full bloom of adulthood with a modicum of self-awareness will acknowledge, the past always informs the present. For most of us this takes place in small but important ways – a nostalgic preference for a particular holiday place, meal or cultural activity, Continue Reading
Book review: Sirius by Jonathan Crown
Writing a tragi-comic novel centred on a dog of Lassie-like abilities, that is onw who is deeply loveable, prodigious and fantastical, may seem like a highly perilous undertaking. After all, how do you make one of the darkest periods in human history when fascist tyranny became horrifically commonplace and Continue Reading