September 2016

Black Widow

Christopher Brookmyre (http://www.brookmyre.co.uk/ and  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Brookmyre) has won the The McIlvanney Prize – previously known as the ‘Scottish Crime Book of the Year’ – at the Bloody Scotland festival in Stirling (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-37323557). To see why this writer is so respected by other authors in the crime fiction field, and adored by a legion of fans, read his latest crime

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A Little History of Religion by Richard Holloway

Religion is an extremely complex social and cultural phenomenon. No simple definition can capture its manifold nature. Rich, simple, consoling, disturbing, unifying, divisive, colourful, austere, prayerful, practical, doctrinal, mystical, peaceful, militaristic, solitary, communitarian, supernatural, worldly. It has all of these (often contradictory) aspects. The very briefest attempt to get a conceptual handle on the phenomenon

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Demelza

Tonight (Sunday 4th September 2016) sees the screening of the second series of the newly made Poldark historical drama on BBC TV. Many of us will remember the 29 episode TV adaptation with Robin Ellis and Angharad Rees which ran from 1975-1977. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075560/?ref_=nv_sr_2) Forty years on, and it’s Aidan Turner and Eleanor Tomlinson who are

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