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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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MARCH 26, 2024 Review: The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Book Artists at the Victoria Art Gallery, Bath. My heart sank when…

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MARCH 25, 2024 Review: The Holburne Museum, Bath: If like me you like a grand stair case then the Holburne…

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By Harry Mottram: The weekend of Saturday 4th to Bank Holiday Monday 6th May, 2024, is a wonderful chance to take…

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By Harry Mottram: As one person said to me last night, ‘if anyone can make a success of the Oakhouse,…

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ICSM Business – Retail Insolvency News: ‘inappropriate behaviour to females’, profit warnings, and an abandoned Dutch deal sees Ted Baker potentially going bust

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Harry Mottram: Once a classy fashion retailing icon of the high street Ted Bake is a classic how the mighty have…

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MARCH 19, 2024 By John Wimperis, local democracy reporter: Major changes to the Westlink minibus service are planned next month to…

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By Rupert Bridgwater: Katrina Amy Alexandra Price – or Katie Price as she prefers having dropped her former alias of Jordan…

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Rapscallion Magazine Feature: the life and times of that stalwart of British comedy – the Spiv – the cheeky anti-authoritarian character working the black economy selling dodgy goods

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Axbridge News: success for Axbridge Blackberry Carnival’s music night quiz with more than £900 raised for the September event

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    • Axbridge Review
      • Axbridge Pageant 2029
      • Comment
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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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    • Beautiful Brides
      • Editing Beautiful Brides Magazine
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      • Theatre Reviews
    • 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 Music
        • REVIEWS: Books
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        • REVIEWS: food and drink
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    • Western Daily Press
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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
      • 2015 09 September Issue 2
      • 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