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Book reviews
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid Hamish Hamilton paperback, £10.99 This writer is, so to speak, at your elbow. 'Let me show you this.' The Reluctant Fundamentalist makes it impossible for any…
Poem of the Month
Selected by David Underdown who also writes the commentary. The World Is Too Much With Us by William Wordsworth The world is too much with us; late and soon. Getting and spending,…
Artist of the Month
Our Arran Artist/Maker for the month of January is Ruth Mae, who creates beautiful turned vessels at her workshop and gallery at Southbank Studio, Southbank Farm, East Bennan. Ruth, how would you…
Crossword
Some answers are seasonal and have no clues. These are marked with an asterisk. Across 5 Commanding cooker (3) 7 Let all hard and resilient solids start mud-slides (6) 11 Engineer broke…
Bridge Challenge
South to make four hearts. West leads the ♠Q.
Poem of the Month
Selected by David Underdown, who also wrote the commentary Freight by Maura Dooley I am the ship in which you sail, little dancing bones, your passage between the dream and the waking…
Book review
Capital by John Lanchester Reviewed by Alison Prince John Lanchester's novel about London, simply called Capital and now serialised on BBC television, is clever, hard-hitting and often very funny. It peeps, if…
Saltire Society
Dolina McLennan The November meeting of Arran's Saltire Society featured the enchanting Dolina McLennan, an actress and consummate story-teller. Still with the lilt of her Hebridean ancestry, she reminisced her way through…
Tim Pomeroy – Contemporary Sacred Show – Fine Art Society, Edinburgh
Tim Pomeroy is not only an outstanding artist, musician and poet but also a very personable man. He is charming and both well spoken and well read, and so it was on…
Tim Kliphuis Trio
On Saturday 14th November a big audience gathered in Brodick Hall to hear the Tim Kliphuis Trio playing their distinctive, brilliant jazz. Tim himself is becoming well known not only as an…
Arran Artist of the Month
Our Arran Artist of the Month for December is Ann Hume, who makes beautiful jewellery in Brodick. How would you describe your work and the philosophy behind it, Ann? My work is…
Corrie Film Club
The Christmas offering on December 13th at 6.30 in Corrie and Sannox Hall is going to be a Christmas Triple Bill and Supper. Three films with supper in between (bring a dish…