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The Eternal Season
Like many other people over the past 12 months or so many have been experiencing Covid exhaustion, trying as much not to read the daily news of more deaths, seemingly…
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Fifty Sounds
There’s something about immersing yourself in another language and culture that always brings romantic imaginings to the fore. I’m sure many of us have dreamt of jetting off to foreign…
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Gone: A search for what remains of the world’s extinct creatures
Climate Change and talk of a Sixth Extinction seem to be ever-present in our newsfeeds these days, “Winter's getting warmer, the ice-caps are melting” as musician Julian Cope once sang…
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Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay
Even as a boy, Jeff Young is in love with a city – Liverpool. The city is his muse and the inspiration for much of his work as a dramatist. …
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Calling the Spirits
I’m sure many of us have seen the image on television or portrayed on radio and comic books of the atypical ‘mystic’ calling out ‘is there anybody there?’, and although…
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Forgotten Footprints
In humankind’s history there have been many ages of discovery, but few that surmise the arduousness and strength of human endurance than Antarctica. Yet Antarctica, much as the race to…
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A Life on our Planet
I think it would be an underestimation to suggest that David Attenborough is one of the leading environmentalists in the country or the planet. His career on television has spanned…
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It’s the End of the World
Like so many others enduring 2020 I really wasn't sure I wanted to read Adam Roberts' It's the End of the World: But What Are We Really Afraid Of? but…
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The Secret Life of Fungi
A well-spent rainy afternoon for me is relaxing in my reading chair, large quantities of tea and a good book, maybe a sandwich, which on this occasion was a cheese…
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Fifty Words For Snow
In Fifty Words for Snow, Nancy Campbell continues her work on the “changing landscape of the Arctic” and gifts us not only with the perfect Christmas present but a book…