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Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: a sense of jeopardy hangs over the fate of the talking magpie Tama in Catherine Chidgey’s take on life in rural New Zealand in The Axeman’s Carnival

May 10, 2025 harrymottram
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Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: A troubled marriage, a brutal battle and the ignorance of the British expats in 1940s Egypt in Olivia Manning’s The Levant Trilogy as the Nazis threaten to invade, but it’s all about Harriet and Guy Pringle

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    Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: a sense of jeopardy hangs over the fate of the talking magpie Tama in Catherine Chidgey’s take on life in rural New Zealand in The Axeman’s Carnival
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    Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: A troubled marriage, a brutal battle and the ignorance of the British expats in 1940s Egypt in Olivia Manning’s The Levant Trilogy as the Nazis threaten to invade, but it’s all about Harriet and Guy Pringle
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APRIL 22, 2024 By Harry Mottram: In a week when the Scottish Government abandoned its commitment to net Zero by 2030…

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ICSM Business – Retail Insolvency News: Suppliers like Victoria Beckham and Sarah Cameron demand their stock back from collapsed Matchesfashion

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Suppliers panic as their invoices are unpaid By Harry Mottram: Anecdotally I’ve heard of one manufacturer who ‘opened up the doors’…

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Axbridge News: Candidates go head to head for the job of Avon and Somerset Police and Crime Commissioner on May 2 election (and the £88,600 salary)

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APRIL 10, 2024 By Harry Mottram: In what could be seen a dress rehearsal for the General Election later this year…

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By Harry Mottram: Thames Water has just a few days to repay £190 million pounds to its banking lenders or face…

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Axbridge News: the clock is ticking towards the June deadline for Ofwat’s decision on whether Cheddar Reservoir 2 can go ahead this year

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By Harry Mottram: Last year South West Water dropped a bombshell piece of news – they had put together a…

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By Harry Mottram: If like me you like Matthew Sweet’s regular music series on BBC Radio Three, The Sound of…

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The horrors of Lukashenko’s police state of Belarus continues with more arrests and detentions in the East European state. The…

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MARCH 29, 2024 By Harry Mottram: New figures released by the Environment Agency have shown that Wessex Water, which covers Bath,…

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    • Axbridge Review
      • Axbridge Pageant 2029
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        • ACT’s early days
        • Axbridge Pageant 2022
        • Axbridge Pageant 2022
        • Axbridge Pageant archive
        • Axbridge Pageant Features
        • Axbridge Square
        • Axbridge Square in 1952
        • Basle Air Disaster
        • Books and wine
        • Building Cheddar Reservoir
        • Litter picking in the rain
        • Megan’s Axbridge Part 1
        • Megan’s Axbridge Part 2
        • Megan’s Axbridge Part 3
        • Progressive Supper Details
        • Progressive Supper Review
      • News
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      • Somerset News
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      • Editing Beautiful Brides Magazine
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    • Checkaco Consumer News
    • Children’s Theatre
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      • The Magazine
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    • ICSM Business News
    • Print Monthly
    • Somerset Life
    • Strawberry Line Times
      • Cheddar Reservoir
      • Features
        • 1981 floods
        • Age of the train is returning
        • Along the line in 1899
        • Banwell bombed
        • Beaching rail closures
        • Birnbeck Pier: a brief history
        • Blue remembered hills
        • Bridgwater Carnival numbers
        • Bridgwater Railway Hotel
        • Bridgwater’s old pubs
        • Bristol’s own Bluebell girl
        • Building Cheddar reservoir in the 1930s
        • Burnham footballers
        • Coffee on the line
        • Fish and Chips
        • Highbridge at war
        • Highbridge Caravans
        • How far can the Strawberry Line go?
        • How to make the perfect cuppa
        • Jilted bride
        • Looking Back in Pictures
        • Miss Emily Fazerkerley
        • Old Highbridge recalled
        • Quantock memories
        • Railway workers of Cheddar
        • Renegades Carnival Club
        • Somerset’s Italian POWs
        • The Big Freeze
        • Then and Now
        • Transforming the line
        • Walk around the Res
      • News
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        • REVIEWS: Books
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  • Rapscallion Magazine
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      • 36 Hours in Rome’s Airport
      • Bad New Year’s Resolutions
      • Beautiful Brides Magazine
      • Ben Nevis and Poo Rock
      • Confessions of an art student
      • Dodgy keepers
      • Don’t punch the critic
      • Drunk Goldilocks
      • Dying for a pee
      • Edward Colston’s statue
      • Footballing nuns
      • Holiday hell
      • Indigenous Australians
      • Maggie Smith
      • Mum on TV
      • Night with Sasha
      • Nobody fell over
      • Perfect cuppa
      • Tenby Part 1
      • The Bag Lady
      • The Spiv
      • Tourists in Rome
    • Opinion
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      • Books
      • Cinema
      • Radio
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    • The Magazine
      • 2015 08 August Issue 1
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      • 2015 10 October Issue 3
      • 2015 11 November Issue 4
      • 2016 07 July Issue 05
      • 2017 01 January
      • 2020 12 Rapscallion Magazine December
      • 2021 11 November Rapscallion
      • 2022 07 Rapscallion
      • 2022 11 November
      • 2023 01 January Issue 12
      • Rapscallion Magazine 13 May 2023