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Two Arrow Falls (from Chester City Walls) by Giants of Discovery

Posted on 25/11/2024 by Bobby Seal

Music Review – November 2024 The Wirral, where I was born and bred, has an incredibly rich Viking heritage and is the only place in mainland Britain to have documented evidence of Norwegian Viking Settlers, from 902AD. This album is a … Continue reading →

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Rocketman by Lizzy Laurance

Posted on 29/03/2022 by Bobby Seal

Through songs I dreamt the stories of the boat, listening to its sounds and its silences. Rocketman is the debut album of London-based sound artist and composer, Lizzy Laurance. To work on her project, Lizzy took up temporary residence in … Continue reading →

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The Magnetic North: Travels in the Arctic by Sara Wheeler

Posted on 16/03/2022 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – March 2022 Herds of reindeer move across ice and snow. Slim-shouldered Lapps squatting on skidoos nose their animals towards an arc of stockades. A man in a corral holds a pair of velvet antlers while another jabs … Continue reading →

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Manifesto: On Never Giving Up by Bernardine Evaristo

Posted on 04/03/2022 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – March 2022 My creativity can be traced back to my heritage, to the skin colour that defined how I was perceived. But, like my ancestors, I wouldn’t accept defeat. Manifesto is part memoir and part handbook providing … Continue reading →

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Play Power by Richard Neville

Posted on 07/01/2022 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – January 2022 Those most caught up in the syndrome of work/family/machine/sport/success/failure/guilt… are those most outraged by the evolving Underground alternative.                               Fifteen I … Continue reading →

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Notes From an Island by Tove Jansson & Tuulikki Pietilä

Posted on 11/11/2021 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – November 2021 We dreamed about what our new cabin would look like. The room would have four windows, one in each wall. Towards the south-east we’d need to see the big storms that rage right across the … Continue reading →

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Buried Garden: Lockdown With The Lost Poets Of Abney Park Cemetery, by Chris McCabe

Posted on 22/10/2021 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – Halloween 2021 Buried Garden is the fourth volume of Chris McCabe’s exploration of the so-called lost poets of London’s Victorian cemeteries. These burial places, now known as the Magnificent Seven, were established on greenfield sites on the … Continue reading →

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Great Master / small boy – by Liz Lefroy

Posted on 05/08/2021 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – August 2021 In the summer of 2018 Liz Lefroy and her son, Jonty, took a trip across central Europe. They visited Bonn and Vienna on the trail of art, architecture, history and sachertorte. They were also searching … Continue reading →

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The Sea View Has Me Again: Uwe Johnson in Sheerness – Patrick Wright

Posted on 28/07/2021 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – July 2021 It may at first seem puzzling that Uwe Johnson, one of Germany’s most accomplished writers of the twentieth century, should spend the final ten years of his life in Sheerness on Kent’s Isle of Sheppey. … Continue reading →

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Of Ice and Fire: January 2019 Book Reviews

Posted on 22/01/2019 by Bobby Seal

The Library of Ice: Readings from a Cold Climate – Nancy Campbell (Scribner UK, 2018) Nancy Campbell is a poet and a printmaker. She ascribes her fascination with the world’s icy places to the snow globe she had as a … Continue reading →

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