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Book review – Vampires of Avonmouth

Tim Kindberg's history of the West of England in the late twenty-first century

By Tim Kindberg
Front cover of Vampires of Avonmouth novel featuring hand clutching beads
Book review What is lurking near the end of the grand pier with its wisht presence? Anyone who has taken a cursory glance at a field guide to the natural history of the vampire will know that there are vampires of blood, and other species hungry to feed upon the psyche. Those that inhabit the irresistibly titled Vampires of Avonmouth are the latter. Set in the late twenty-first century West Country and Ghana, the novel follows the efforts of the chief protagonists, rogue ID cop, David, tracking […]
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The Fight for Monad

By Raymond Williams
Raymond Williams’s novel, The Fight for Manod was first published in 1979. As we know, 1979 was an important year, seemingly a watershed year. In this year Margaret Thatcher was elected, and Ronald Regan launched what was to be his successful presidential campaign. Yet the social forces that pushed them into prominence and the form of capitalism on stilts now commonly known as Neoliberalism didn’t of course suddenly emerge overnight from nowhere. Like deadly toadstools, the mycelium that brought […]
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