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Part 2 of Unreliable Mendip postcards from Somerset. The walk continues from Uphill to Wells. Harry Mottram put on his…
By Harry Mottram: From porridge in 1906 and semolina in the 1960s, to getting your five fruit and veg a…
Mar 28, 2026 By Harry Mottram: I was cycling along the road when a car went straight into the back of…
Harry Mottram has a suitcase full of demob suits. Here he relates his life as a spiv I once sold…
Renad, a young Gazan girl, embarks on a dangerous journey. Carrying only the echoes of her grandmother’s tales and the…
Beaten, brainwashed and coached to play football by Catholic nuns By Harry Mottram: Until I visited a museum where there…
Apr 26, 2025 Book Review: Klara And The Sun. Some of the reviews of Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2021 novel Klara and the…
From Taunton Brewhouse: is delighted to reveal that rehearsals are now in full swing for this year’s Christmas production of The…
Book Review: The Gustav Sonata. By Rose Tremain. If two boys and their mothers can represent wartime Switzerland, then Rose…
Book Review: Me Talk Pretty One Day. David Sedaris A friend of a friend should be beaten to death for…