Monthly Archives: January 2018

My Review of “The Night Brother” by Rosie Garland

Posted on January 31, 2018 by lipstick socialist

  As the debate around gender recognition in the C21st rages on Rosie Garland’s new novel The Night Brother is a fantastical story of identity and belonging: of sexuality and gender.  Set in late  C19th and  early C20th Manchester  this … Continue reading →

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My review of “Freedom Song” by Mary King (1987)

Posted on January 6, 2018 by lipstick socialist

In 1962 white, preacher’s daughter, Mary King, graduated from college, and decided to give up her cosy middle class lifestyle and head south to work for the Student Nonviolent Co-ordinating Committee (SNCC). This memoir is the story of her four … Continue reading →

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