About ten years ago, I stopped watching TV. I had a hi-tech, easy-to-programme TV recorder which could record 100s of hours of programmes, effectively creating my own TV channel. I never managed to see much of it. It made me realise that, like so many others, my appetite for content was too great – and […]
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Ursula K. Le Guin was a celebrated and prolific American author, spanning many literary genres for six decades, first winning acclaim in fantasy fiction, most notably her Earthsea ‘high fantasy’ series, and also in science fiction. Both had been a male enclave until her arrival, garnering much praise and many prizes. She was generous to
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This powerful and thought-provoking book was published during the relaxation between the first and second Covid 19 lockdowns in England in 2020. Heightened emotions arising from decades of information overload, increasingly freighted with disinformation and misinformation, deepened worldwide fears and divisions. Wise words were in short supply. Unusually for a polemic, its analysis and remedies
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Erling Kagge is a Norwegian explorer, publisher and author, famous as the first explorer to conquer the three poles on foot: the North and South Poles and Mt. Everest. What makes his conquests all the more remarkable, is that all were unsupported. An appeal of this book is his examination of his own and his
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Quaker Worship: Reflections and Explorations by James McCarthy This is a thoughtful consideration of Quaker meetings for worship. It’s a new addition to the Kindlers series of devotional booklets, aimed at the curious – regardless of how little or how much experience of such worship the reader might have. James McCarthy draws upon fifty years of
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