• Lulworth by Anna Dillon

    Book Review – Earth Memories, Llewlyn Powys

    Review by Henry Rothwell. Lulworth image by Anna Dillon. ‘We have forgotten how to respond to the poetry of life. The hollow, tinkling facade of life put up by noisy and trivial people stands between us and our deepest wealth.’ Llewelyn Powys, 1913. Llewelyn Powys was a singular human, driven by atypical appetites which, though …

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    Book Review – Copsford, Walter Murray

    Reviewed by Henry Rothwell. When the young Walter Murray first encountered Copsford in the first half of the 1920s, it was a dilapidated if not derelict cottage; the windows lacked much of their glass and let in the wind and rain, the front door wouldn’t shut and let in pretty much everything else, and the …

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  • Ghostland - Edward Parnell

    Book Review – Ghostland, Edward Parnell.

    Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country by Edward Parnell. Review by Barbara Chamberlin (see bottom of page for bio). The British landscape, be it geographical, literary, artistic or ideological, has always been riven with ghosts, a folkloric and supernatural fusion of the multiple histories and cultures embedded within the spaces that surround us. Ghost …

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