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Book Review: A Perfectly Good Man, by Patrick Gale

A Perfectly Good Man opens with 20-year-old Lenny Barnes, paralysed in a rugby accident, taking his own life in the presence of Barnaby Johnson, the much-loved priest of a West Cornwall parish. The tragedy’s reverberations open up the fault-lines between… Continue Reading →

Book Review: Heartstone by C. J. Sansom

Heartstone is the fifth in the brilliant series charting the investigations of Matthew Shardlake, a lawyer in King Henry VIII’s reign. It is Summer, 1545 and England is at war. Henry VIII’s invasion of France has gone badly wrong, and… Continue Reading →

Book Review – Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Rebecca tells the story of a young woman who meets a handsome, older gentleman, Maxim de Winter, in Monte Carlo. It is the gossip of the moment that Maxim’s wife Rebecca, has recently drowned at sea. After a whirlwind romance,… Continue Reading →

Hollywood Stardust Comes to Town…

Liza Pulman The Songs of Hollywood Tour Saturday 23rd April, Hall for Cornwall, Truro Let’s get straight to the point, Liza’s stage show does more than it bills. Sure, she sings The Songs of Hollywood, but she also gives us,… Continue Reading →

Book Review: The Old Ways, by Robert MacFarlane

“Following the tracks, holloways, drove-road and sea paths that form part of a vast ancient network of routes crisis-crossing the British Isles and beyond, Robert MacFarlane discovers a lost world – a landscape of the feet and the mind, of… Continue Reading →

Five weeks on post-surgery

At some point things change. I’m trying to pinpoint it, but the moment evades me. I feel like I’m emerging, growing in strength and purpose. I realise that I’ve forgotten to take pain killers. That’s a good sign, from dividing… Continue Reading →

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