STEVEN ANDREW is moved beyond words by a historical account of mining in Britain made from the words of the miners themselves
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Getting to know the ancient masters of land, sea and air
JOHN GREEN recommends an impressive compendium of fascinating facts about our feathered friends who have been around for a mere 150 million years
(L to R) Detail of the Central Panel of The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch and Edward Julian Detmold, rukh lifting an elephant, illustration to The Arabian Nights
CAILEAN MCBRIDE welcomes a refreshing and timely study of the way officialdom creates structures that exclude LGBT+ rights and humanity
The bard mourns the loss of comrades and troubadours, and looks for consolation with Black Country Jess
CHRIS MOSS relishes the painting and the life story of a self-taught working-class artist from Warrington
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a star-studded adaptation of Ibsen’s play that is devoid of believable humanity
GORDON PARSONS is fascinated by a unique dream journal collected by a Jewish journalist in Nazi Berlin
Borrowed Time: Lennon’s Last Decade, Parthenope, Where Dragons Live and Thunderbolts* reviewed by MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE
Avian Illuminations – a Cultural History of Birds
By Boria Sax
Reaktion Books £25
THIS lavishly illustrated book is quite an ambitious undertaking. Boria Sax covers a wide range of themes, from birds in mythology, in history, religion and in art, to birds in the future. A whistle-stop tour of our historical relationship with birds from the dawn of humanity to the present.
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