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The literary feature: On the Road

Thursday, 11th March 2010

The book review takes a look at life on the otherside

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Mark Kermode - It's Only a Movie

Tuesday, 2nd March 2010

Lois Cameron reviews Mark Kermode's trip to the City Screen, and the book he was there to plug

Ernest Hemingway

The literary feature - Ernest Hemingway

Thursday, 25th February 2010

Maybe just the most influential novelist of the twentieth Century

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‘Handmade’ - Langwith Norman Rea Gallery – until Friday 05/03/10

Tuesday, 23rd February 2010

Another cracking show by the Langwith Arts team

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The Book Review: French Neurosis

French Writer with Book
Thursday, 14th January 2010
Marcel Proust claimed that neurotics couldn’t bear to see another flaunting their same emotions and if the following books prove anything it’s that it is difficult to keep a cool head when something heavy is weighing upon you. For these characters the weight of the world is much bigger than love, or even dissatisfaction; they have to live with themselves.

Albert Camus – The Plague

An Algerian town is closed until its inhabitants can find a cure for the disease that is claiming many of its citizens. Albert Camus’ small town sees relationships flourish and fade while trying to avoid the mystery illness and is nothing short of a masterpiece.

Oliver Pauvert – Noir

A man who by all means should be dead, walks unscathed from the wreckage of a police van into his native Paris. After losing the senses of smell and taste he notices he has no reflection on inanimate objects. As this thriller develops the protagonist has to come to terms with his mistakes and work for redemption.

Franck Pavloff – Brown

A media sensation when it was serialized in France. New government laws decree that all non-brown cats must be handed over to the authorities, then follow the dogs. Our protagonist stays with us as his world becomes increasingly brown until he just fades away

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