Rapscallion Magazine BOOK REVIEW The hurts and wrongs of childhood given voice in Alice Munro’s short stories
Dear Life. By Alice Munro. Subtle with a light touch and minimum of words and fully fleshed, Alice Munro’s characters…
Rapscallion Magazine FEATURE Loose leaves or tea bag; milk or lemon? And was George Orwell right? The arguments over the making of the perfect cuppa
Was George Orwell right about making tea, or does the University of Nottingham have the know how? Aunt Agatha has…
Rapscallion Magazine BOOK REVIEW The agony and the irony: Guy wanted to be a hero and very nearly did in Evelyn Waugh’s comic World War II triology
Sword of Honour. By Evelyn Waugh. Penguin Classics (1965) The characters simply swagger off the page. Trimmer with his undeserved…
Rapscallion Magazine FILM REVIEW Parents are such an inconvenience (especially when they drop dead) in Ozu’s daughter-from-hell story
Tokyo Story (1953) She’s bossy, selfish and out for herself. And if you drop dead she’ll go through your stuff…
Rapscallion Magazine TALKING BOOK REVIEW Bill Wallis’ “dunked ginger nut of a voice” reads Illies’ 1913 The Year Before The Storm
1913 The Year Before The Storm. By Florian Illies. Chivers Audiobooks. Read by Bill Wallis. (2013) We draw back the…
Harry The Spiv POEM Will you be my FaceBook Friend?
Will you be my Facebook friend? My former flatmate from Bridgend? It’s been some thirty years last March, Since you…
Rapscallion Magazine FEATURE Why aren’t children scared of pirates?
Are pirate captains really posh boys gone wrong? Harry Mottram sets sail to investigate the unscary world of pirates and…
Rapscallion Magazine FEATURE Confessions of a spiv
Harry Mottram has a suitcase full of demob suits. Here he relates his life as a spiv I once sold…
Strawberry Line Times FEATURE She liked brass bands, fire engines and men in uniform – the strange world of Miss Emily Fazakerley
One lived in a haystack, one joined the Serbian army and another set up her own fire brigade. The world…
Rapscallion Magazine FEATURE Goal keepers: the good, the bad and the downright dodgy
In 2008 Stretchmark Theatre produced the one man show Dodgy Keeper. This is an essay written at the time on…
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