Book Review: She’s my Dad by Sarah Savage
Local author Sarah Savage has produced a brightly illustrated book for children aged 3 – 7 which engages in an effective and gentle way in an early years setting of family diversity.
Eric Page
Book Review: David Hockney: A Life by Catherine Cusset
Cussets’ book is a homage to an artist adored, with the fiction and fact blended together, like canvas and paint to give an overwhelming sensation of complete narrative, capturing an element of movement which unfolds into a wider understanding of this charming man and his charmed life.
Book Review: Born to Be Public by Greg Mania
Taking us through his hook ups, sexual adventures, skirmishes with mental health and tender rejections of romance, a laugh out loud coming out story and his searching for reality and authenticity in a world which seems to be obsessed with image.
Book REVIEW: Things We Say in the Dark by Kirsty Logan
The stories examine, from a women’s perspective, themes of life, fear, flesh and violence. Mothers, children, compromise, struggle. Logan’s forensic prose peeling back the skin of dreams to reveal the rawness below. The tension in them is palpable and the words slide into your imagination, uncoiling
Book REVIEW: The Private Joys of Nnenna Malony by Okechukwu Nzelu
Sharply observing the contradictions of modern urban life, sharing a delighted love of the city of Manchester, and of its weirdly adorable residents, Nzelu’s voice, original and so beautifully bold gives us insight into Nnenna’s world as she finds some answers, but unfurling more questions on race,
Book REVIEW: Mama’s boy by Dustin Lance Black
The book moved & touched me with its honesty approach to grief, loss and the difficulties of moving on. He holds up the real angels in his life, his brother and mother, both now dead. With a candour which is unsentimental but tender and embracing tells us their, and his story.
REVIEW: Books: The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper
The book explores how living in the full gaze of the internet impacts on mental health and also how much creative energy, presentation and touched up fakery goes into presenting the ‘everyday life’ as content for the ravenous appetite of Reality TV or social media platforms.