Category Archives: Book Reviews
The Belly Dancer – Margaret Halliday
Gemma, a young English woman, finds herself involved in more than just teaching English soon after her arrival in Turkey.
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Punch – Barbara Henderson
It’s Inverness, 1889, and in Barbara Henderson’s, Punch, 12-year-old Phin is accused of a terrible crime.
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‘What Is Taste? Making the Connection’
Being a real food lover, I recently received the ideal present from a family member, Gordon Shepherd’s excellent book Neurogastronomy.
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Thresholds – Roddy Simpson
Thresholds is a series of lyrical, black and white photographs, taken between 1994 and the present, by Roddy Simpson, a photographer, photo-historian, writer and lecturer who lives in Linlithgow.
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To Retribution – FJ Curlew
In the very near future, the military controls the UK. Media is censored, movement monitored and re-education and repatriation are the orders of the day.
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The Things We Learn When We’re Dead – Charlie Laidlaw
Lorna Love is returning home from a dinner party when she’s knocked down by a car. She wakes up in what she assumes is a hospital – albeit a wish and silent hospital.
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