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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 Rapscallion Magazine Feature: no booze, no cigs and no late nights – but an enjoyable week in Nice only marred by a horrific road accident 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 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 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
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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

May 8, 2025 harrymottram
Rapscallion Magazine Feature

Rapscallion Magazine Feature: no booze, no cigs and no late nights – but an enjoyable week in Nice only marred by a horrific road accident

May 6, 2025 harrymottram
Book Review

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

May 1, 2025 harrymottram
Bath Voice Newspaper

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

May 1, 2025 harrymottram
Bath Voice Newspaper

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

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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
  • Rapscallion Magazine Feature: no booze, no cigs and no late nights – but an enjoyable week in Nice only marred by a horrific road accident
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    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
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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 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
  • Rapscallion Magazine Feature: no booze, no cigs and no late nights – but an enjoyable week in Nice only marred by a horrific road accident
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    Rapscallion Magazine Feature: no booze, no cigs and no late nights – but an enjoyable week in Nice only marred by a horrific road accident
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THEATRE REVIEW: Sex, facelifts and being ugly in Sarah Bradley’s near masterpiece of comic theatre at the Alma Tavern, Bristol

Apr 27, 2016 harrymottram

The Ugly One. Alma Tavern Theatre, Bristol. “I love me” is the dying refrain in Marius Von Mayenburg’s tragic comedy…

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THEATRE REVIEW: Familiar American family setting suits the suits and fitted dresses of Axbridge’s actors in Arthur Miller’s moral drama about greed, lies and cover-ups

Apr 24, 2016 harrymottram

  All My Sons. Axbridge Town Hall. Cover-ups, complicity, concealment. Welcome to the great American corporate scandal where greed overturns…

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CARTOON: SignLink’s Soap Box for Link Publications

Apr 7, 2016 harrymottram

New cartoon for SignLink magazine based on an editorial about the sign industry. New commissions always welcome via email on…

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THEATRE REVIEW: Dressed in her underwear Jane Austen gave voice to the quirks, the quibbles and the asides of her characters

Mar 13, 2016 harrymottram

More in Rapscallion Magazine at: www.harrymottram.co.uk Austen’s Women, Bridgwater Arts Centre It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single…

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BOOK REVIEW: Bitter sweet stories from middle America that are universal in their ordinariness

Mar 6, 2016 harrymottram

A Spool of Blue Thread, By Anne Tyler Meet the family. There’s Abby and Red in their extended domesticity, Junior…

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JOURNALISM: how one street in Somerset has changed in just 45 years

Feb 11, 2016 harrymottram

How one street in Somerset has changed in the last 45 years. Then (1973) and now – Cross Street in…

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REVIEW NOVEL: Apparently, fat Americans are nice – that’s about the extent of the theme in McCall Smith’s novel – it makes you want to go on a diet in protest

Feb 10, 2016 harrymottram

Fatty O’Leary’s Dinner Party, By Alexander McCall Smith Not so much a comic novel more the defense of fat folk.…

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PHOTOGRAPHY Somerset: Dunball Wharf and the River Parrett on a late winter’s afternoon

Jan 19, 2016 harrymottram

These photographs are taken as part of my travels for work in Somerset as a journalist. I’m always amazed by…

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POEM: whether to get up to go to the toilet in the night

Jan 17, 2016 harrymottram

Toilet dreams It’s three in the morning, I want to go and I’ve become uncomfortable aware, That I need to…

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CARICATURE: good luck card

Jan 17, 2016 harrymottram

Cartoons, illustrations and caricatures. New commissions always welcome via email on harryfmottram@gmail.com. www.harrymottram.co.uk Also on Facebook and Twitter as Harry The Spiv.

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  • Publications
    • Axbridge Review
      • Axbridge Pageant 2029
      • Comment
      • Features
        • 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
    • Bath Voice
      • Bath Voice Features
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      • Bath Voice Theatre Reviews
      • Bath Voice What’s On
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      • Places Reviewed
      • Theatre Reviews
    • Beautiful Brides
      • Editing Beautiful Brides Magazine
    • Bristol News
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      • Theatre Previews
      • Theatre Reviews
    • Checkaco Consumer News
    • Children’s Theatre
      • Features
      • Interviews
      • REVIEWS: Books
      • REVIEWS: Films
      • REVIEWS: Theatre
      • The Magazine
      • Theatre Reviews
      • Videos
    • 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
      • Reviews
        • Reviews Music
        • REVIEWS: Books
        • REVIEWS: Books – Non Fiction
        • REVIEWS: Cinema
        • REVIEWS: food and drink
        • REVIEWS: Poetry
        • REVIEWS: talking books
        • REVIEWS: Theatre
        • REVIEWS: Video
      • The Magazine
      • Videos
    • West Country Riders
    • Western Daily Press
  • Rapscallion Magazine
    • Features
      • 36 Hours in Rome’s Airport
      • Bad New Year’s Resolutions
      • 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
    • Reviews
      • Books
      • Cinema
      • Radio
      • Theatre
      • TV
    • 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
 

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