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2024: A Year in Books

03 Friday Jan 2025

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2024, A Year in Books, Alex Grant, Amy Helen Bell, Avril Horner, Barbara Comyns, Bastard Out of Carolina, Bristol, Brooklyn, Carol Ann Lee, Civil War, Cold War, Colm Toibin, Dorothy Allison, Dust Bowl, Edna O'Brien, Eilis Lacey, Gayl Jones, Highland Clearances, Huckleberry Finn, Ingrid Persaud, Iris Jamahl Dunkle, Irish Literature, James, Jayne Ann Phillips, John Steinbeck, John Vassall, Kate Summerscale, Kevin Barry, Lancashire Witches, London, Long Island, Marc Kristal, Mark Twain, Mrs Gulliver, Native American Literature, Night Watch, Novella, Paula Spencer, Pauline Boty, Pendle Witches, Percival Everett, Pop Art, Profumo Affair, Pulitzer Prize, Reginald Christie, Rillington Place, Roddy Doyle, Sam Selvon, Sanora Babb, Scotland, Short Stories, Slavery, Sunjeev Sahota, Tessa Hadley, The Country Girls, The Heart in Winter, The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh, The Party, The Peepshow, The Spoiled Heart, The Unicorn Woman, The Women Behind the Door, Toni Morrison, Trinidad, True Crime, Under Cover of Darkness, Valerie Martin, Ways of Sunlight, Western, Windrush, Witchcraft, World War II

Marilyn Monroe reads Walt Whitman (Photo by John Florea)

For me, 2024 was a nebulous year when literary favourites returned but the best novels came from unexpected quarters. It was perhaps a stronger year for non-fiction, particularly when exploring the lives of creative women. Continue reading →

Sixty Years Later: Scandal ’63 Revisited

13 Monday Nov 2023

Posted by marina72 in Anniversaries, Art and Photography, Books, Fashion and Beauty, Film, History, Music, Periodicals, Poetry, Politics, Profumo Affair

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A Kind of Loving, Amanda Coe, Barry Fantoni, Calder Waldon, Caroline Coon, Catherine Edmunds, Cathy Lomax, Christine Keeler, Christine Noonan, Dameon Priestly, David Kynaston, De Montfort University, Divergência Socialista, Eugene Ivanov, Fanny Hill, Fionn Wilson, Geoffrey Robertson, Gerald Scarfe, Graphic Novel, Harold Macmillan, If ...., Introducing Mandy, John Profumo, Keeler, Leicester, Leicester Gallery, Lewis Morley, Libby Crowley, Mandy Rice-Davies, Marguerite Horner, Mariella Novotny, Melanie Williams, Michael Bronze, Murray's Cabaret Club, Natalie d'Arbeloff, Peggy Davies Ceramics, Private Eye, Profumo Affair, Richard Farmer, Sadie Hennessy, Sadie Lee, Sal Jones, Scandal, Scandal '63 Revisited, Senseless Things, Seymour Platt, Stella Vine, Stephen Ward, Stephen Ward: The Musical, Steve Chibnall, Sue Lloyd, Terence Donovan, That Affair, That Was the Week That Was, The Christine Keeler Colouring Book, The Keeler Affair, The Mandy Report, The Trial Of Christine Keeler, Timothy Birdsall, Town Magazine, Tuli Kupferberg, Une Romance Anglaise, Vanessa Holburn, Vice Girls Ltd., Wendy Nelson, Wes Streeting, Yours Retro

“In Britain at the start of the 1960s, Victorian values are still mainstream. There is a rich ruling class who are better than everybody else, women are mostly thought of as the property of the men around them and if you are Black, discrimination, IS the culture. I believe the Profumo scandal shone a light on all of that poison and was another step on the road that we are still very much on, to a more equal society. So, I think in some ways the Profumo scandal was a good thing. But for my mother, I am sure she would say, ‘What a price I had to pay!’”– Seymour Platt, ‘My Mother, Christine Keeler’ Continue reading →

Scandal ’63 Revisited: Symposium in Leicester

21 Tuesday Mar 2023

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Carol Dyhouse, Caroline Collett, Caroline Coon, Cathy Lomax, Christine Keeler, Dameon Priestly, De Montfort University, Fionn Wilson, Gemma June Howell, Guinevere Clark, Leicester, Leicester Gallery, Marguerite Horner, Mari Ellis Dunning, Melanie Williams, Pauline Boty, Profumo Affair, Richard Farmer, Sarah Caulfield, Scandal '63 Revisited, Seymour Platt, Stephen Ward, Steve Chibnall, Sue Tate

A symposium for Scandal ’63 Revisited will be held at Leicester Gallery on Friday, April 14th, ahead of the exhibition’s last day on Saturday. Tickets are free but must be reserved in advance here. (The flyer image seen above shows an outtake from Christine Keeler’s iconic photo shoot with Lewis Morley, who later recreated her most famous pose with the Leicester-born playwright and provocateur, Joe Orton.)

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‘Scandal’ Revisited as New Exhibition Opens in Leicester

01 Wednesday Mar 2023

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Scandal, the 1989 movie dramatising the Profumo Affair, is showing at the Phoenix Leicester at 7:30 pm this Friday, March 3rd, introduced by producer Stephen Woolley with an onstage Q&A. Whatever you may think of the narrative, Scandal boasts terrific performances by John Hurt as Stephen Ward and Joanne Whalley as Christine Keeler (seen above with Bridget Fonda); surprising cameo turns (Leslie Phillips as Lord Astor!); and a fabulous retro soundtrack topped by Dusty Springfield’s comeback hit, ‘Nothing Has Been Proved.’

The screening is in partnership with Leicester Gallery on the De Montfort University campus, where a new exhibition, Scandal ‘63 Revisited: Reframing the Profumo Affair via Art and Artefact, opens on Friday, following a private view from 6 pm – 8 pm on Thursday with Christine Keeler’s son, Seymour Platt. (If you plan to attend the preview, please RSVP to leicestergallery@dmu.ac.uk.) Continue reading →

2021: A Year in Books

24 Friday Dec 2021

Posted by marina72 in Books, Fiction, Non-Fiction

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A Year in Books, A.K. Blakemore, Agnes of Little Neon, Ailsa McFarlane, All I Could Never Be, Amanda Smyth, Anzia Yezierska, Attia Hosain, Bette Howland, Claire Keegan, Claire Luchette, Claudia Hernandez, David Bushman, Eve Babitz, Fortune, Gayl Jones, Glenn Stout, Hazel Drew, Highway Blue, In the Shadow of the Yali, Joan Didion, Julia Laite, Laura Palmer, Lilian Pizzichini, Mariella Novotny, Mark T. Givens, Monique Roffey, Murder at Teal's Pond, Nadifa Mohamed, Nervous Conditions, Palmares, Post-Colonial Writers, Profumo Affair, Slash and Burn, Small Things Like These, Suat Derviş, Sunlight On a Broken Column, The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey, The Fortune Men, The Manningtree Witches, The Mermaid of Black Conch, The Novotny Papers, Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid, Trinidad, True Crime, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Turkey, Twin Peaks, W-3, Zimbabwe

Among all the great new writing and reissues I’ve found this year, it’s clear that the world of books, like film, is becoming ever more diverse and we are all richer for it. After a long absence, Gayl Jones returned with the monumental Palmares, following a woman’s epic journey from slavery to an embattled free settlement and beyond. Set in 17th century Brazil, this story contains multitudes, offering an extraordinary meditation on the cost of freedom. Continue reading →

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