Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: a match making hike in the rain in David Nicholls’ highly amusing and affectionate novel You Are Here
Book Review: You Are Here, by David Nicholls. Not so much love in a cold climate but a rain soaked…
ICSM Utilities Insolvency News: Energy firm goes bust; P&O in choppy waters after failing to publish accounts; and the drawn out death throws of Thames Water continue
By Harry Mottram: Older readers may recall the advertising campaign in the 1980s ‘Tell Sid’, extolling the virtues of buying shares…
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
Book Review: The Axeman’s Carnival, by Catherine Chidgey Tama the talking magpie is many things – a social media star,…
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
Book Review: The Levant Trilogy, by Olivia Manning The heat, the flies, and the bloody expats – Egypt in World…
Rapscallion Magazine Feature: no booze, no cigs and no late nights – but an enjoyable week in Nice only marred by a horrific road accident
By Harry Mottram: It was the first holiday Linda and I had taken in two years – a week in…
Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: no plot, nothing happens and we still don’t know how you go to the toilet in space in Samantha Harvey’s Orbital – as we go round the earth 16 times
Book Review: Orbital by Samantha Harvey: The 2024 Booker Prize winning novel is something of a contradiction since it’s not…
Bath Voice News: Bath City FC welcomes the MP’s support for the Football Governance Bill aimed at preventing rogue owners from financially ruining clubs
April 30, 2025 By Harry Mottram: Since 1992, 60 clubs in the top four divisions have entered administration due to financial…
As Bath Festival approaches a look back to when the Bath Arts Workshop kickstarted the festival movement – now portrayed in a book – Bath Arts Workshop – charting the heady days in the city of the counterculture of the 1970s
JANUARY 28, 2023 By Harry Mottram. The late 60s and early 1970s was seen as a golden age of counterculture in…
Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: Kazuo Ishiguro’s brilliantly clear and simple prose brings to life artificial humanoid Klara in a futuristic world of genetically enhanced children
Book Review: Klara And The Sun. Some of the reviews of Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2021 novel Klara and the Sun speak…
Rapscallion Magazine Radio Review: a moment of truth when deciding to defect from North Korea in Al Smith’s high drama account of Thae Yong-ho’s split second decision ‘to run’
Radio Review: The Defectors. Drama on BBC Radio 3.Golf or tennis? Such simple choices set in motion the high tension…