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Lioness: Hidden Treasures

28 Saturday Jan 2012

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Released in December 2011, four months after the death of Amy Winehouse, Lioness: Hidden Treasures – which takes its name from the singer’s independent record label – is not the third album that fans have longed for since the award-winning Back to Black (2006), but a collection of covers, demos and alternate versions spanning her meteoric career.  Continue reading →

From Russia With Love

11 Sunday Apr 2010

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Artwork by Michael Gillette

‘City Reads’ is an annual event in Brighton and Hove, beginning on World Book Day in March and concluding during the Brighton Festival in May. Each year one book is chosen, to be read and discussed by the whole community over three months. Since 2005, a variety of texts from Lewis Carroll’s classic fantasy, Alice in Wonderland, to contemporary novels such as The Book Thief by Marcus Zusack have been selected.

This year’s read is From Russia With Love, the fifth of Ian Fleming’s thrillers featuring the dashing secret agent, James Bond. Continue reading →