When the ravages of Alzheimer’s leave an elderly woman marooned in painful memories of October 1950, her grandchild comes up with a creative strategy.
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Winter at the Bookshop by Sylvia Riley
Vibrant and candid memoir of politics and poverty in 1960s Nottingham
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SUE TURNER is compelled by a history that shows how far a country can turn in on itself to collude with abuses of power
RON JACOBS is persuaded by the parallel drawn between Charles Manson and Donald Trump
In this comparison of Britain pre- and post Thatcher, WILL POMORE applauds the analysis, but distrusts the solutions offered
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THE bookshop at the centre of Sylvia Riley’s book was demolished in the early 1970s, along with most other buildings in the gridiron streets of St Ann’s in Nottingham.
Some locals claim a spirit of camaraderie left the area along with the rats, cockroaches and Victorian terraces.
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