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Book Review
The Outrun by Amy Liptrot, Canongate, 2016. Amy Liptrot was born in Orkney to English parents who had gone north to find a farm they could afford and to live ‘the good…
Poem of the Month
The Brook I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down,…
The Mandiloquents
Music Society concerts are always hugely enjoyable, but the most recent one, on Saturday June18th, was also great fun. The mandolin, I'd always thought, was of a size that sat comfortably within…
Echo Chamber Ensemble
Arran Music Society’s next concert is taking place a little earlier than planned, on Saturday, 9th July, and it is one for connoisseurs and fans of classical music. Echo Chamber Ensemble features…
A Packed House for the Launch of ‘Waking at Five’
How many people fit into Whiting Bay Lesser Hall? An awful lot was the answer on the evening of Sunday 5th June when a packed house assembled for the launch of Alison…
Book Reviews
Paul and Lucy Kalanithipose with their babyCady.
Udaipur
An update from Arrangirl in India Months ago, a colleague Katherine and I decided to take advantage of a long weekend and head to Udaipur - a beautiful city built round some…
Crossword
Across 1 Melts broken hat from Cornwall returning? (5) 5 Crack carbon vicar on the rocks (7) 9 Terrorists accountant backing mites (5) 10 A kiss on Sulphur neurons? (5) 11 Retinue…
Bridge Challenge
South to make five diamonds. West leads the ♠K.
Crossword
Across 1 A Lada restraining me goes into avenue (7) 5 Allays princess's skins which are timeless (7) 9 Rising Northern climb (7) 10 Painting school in which I see ens perhaps…
Poem of the Month
Sonnet LVI William Shakespeare Sweet love, renew thy force, be it not said Thy edge should blunter be than appetite, Which but today by feeding is allay’d, Tomorrow sharpened in his former…
Book Reviews
Quicksand; What it means to be a Human Being, by Henning Mankell, Harvill Secker Henning Mankell is perhaps best known for his Wallander crime novels, set in the author’s home country, Sweden,…