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Thursday, October 01, 2026

Seán Mitchell - Struggle or Starve: Working-Class Unity in Belfast's 1932 Outdoor Relief Riots

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By chance I began reading Struggle or Starve on the same weekend that, for the first time in nearly three decades , the Orange Order tried ...
Tuesday, September 29, 2026

Patrick Joyce - Remembering Peasants: A personal history of a vanished world

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Remembering Peasants is an intriguing book. It is a study of peasants and their culture, mainly through a sort of comparative study of Iris...
Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Elmore Leonard - Hombre & Three-Ten to Yuma

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The 1967 Paul Newman film Hombre is a classic revisionist western. It was based, as many brilliant westerns are, on the 1961 short story by...
Sunday, September 20, 2026

Tété-Michel Kpomassie - Michel the Giant: An African in Greenland

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As a young man in the 1950s in a small village in Togo, West Africa, Tété-Michel Kpomassie was bitten by a snake while climbing a tree for ...
Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Patrick Rothfuss - The Name of the Wind

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The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss has some notoriety among fantasy fiction readers, as its volume one of a trilogy that at the time o...
Thursday, September 10, 2026

Rebecca Wragg Sykes - Kindred: Neanderthal life, love, death and art

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One of the least interesting things about Neanderthal's is why they vanished. This is ironic because almost from the time when the first...

R.C. Sherriff - The Hopkins Manuscript

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***Spoiler Alert*** R.C.Sherriff is best known for his World War One play Journey's End and as the screenwriter for such classic films ...
Sunday, September 06, 2026

Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel with Sean Carleton - When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance

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In July 1990 the Canadian state laid siege to an Indigenous Mohawk community near the town of Oka in Quebec. The 78 day siege saw violent co...