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Continue reading →: Music Review: Coates – Vol. 1
This review was originally published on The Doughnut. Oliver Coates is a refreshing change from the techno babble noise coming out of the pop industry at the moment. This West London lad takes us back to a brief period in modern pop history where the British were getting things…
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Continue reading →: Thinking TimeFrom my opinion column written for the Egremont 2Day newspaper. Recently I’ve been talking with solicitors and barristers about some potential legal action I may engage in. I don’t normally have much dealings with such people other than for mortgages or sorting out wills so it has been very strange…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese My rating: 4 of 5 stars This was an interesting novel from an author I’ve not heard of before. I’m not sure how much I enjoyed it. It took me until I was over a third of the way through the book to warm…
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Continue reading →: Music Review: Don Laka – Afro Chopin
This review was originally published on The Doughnut. So here’s a weird thought: Let’s take some of Frédéric chopin’s piano music from the first half of the 19th century, give it a South African beat and turn it into Jazz. Because classical music from the height of Romanticism is…
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Continue reading →: Theatre Review – 39 Steps
This review was written for the Egremont 2Day newspaper in May 2015. While Alfred Hitchcock’s retelling of John Buchan’s classic novel ‘The 39 Steps’ is a great movie it is fair to say that 80 years later it is a little dated. How then, do you put it on stage…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: Songs At the River’s Edge: Stories From a Bangladeshi Village by Katy Gardner
Songs At the River’s Edge: Stories From a Bangladeshi Village by Katy Gardner My rating: 3 of 5 stars I wanted to like this book, I really did. A book about my beloved Bangladesh where I spent nearly six blissfully happy years written by a British woman who was a…
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Continue reading →: Music Review: Various artists – Real Ibiza Volume 8
This review was originally published on The Doughnut. If you’re thinking “Ibiza? Ugh, no thanks!” and expecting loud, raucous rave and trashy pop – think again. This is a collection of (mostly) chilled-out Jazz blended with subtle, unobtrusive grooves creating some enchanting – but never boring – tracks to…
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Continue reading →: Looking after our own in a global village
From my opinion column written for the Egremont 2Day newspaper. My heart sank when I saw the chatter on Facebook. While it might have been morning for me, for all my friends living in Bangladesh it was now afternoon. During the six years we lived abroad we had felt many…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien My rating: 5 of 5 stars I came to re-read The Hobbit with some trepidation having first read it before I was a teenager. It inspired me on to read the tauntingly thick single bound edition of the LOTR Trilogy. I loved all the books.…
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