Thirty Pence.
Today Archie Corpusty was going to need to have some mortal money to hand. He knew that he had a …
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At Doctor Trezvant’s.
Although it was not yet noon, the sky was already a disconcertingly deep and soulful blue. So blue that its …
Furrows.
A field stretching out in all directions like a huge empty mind. The boy had been following the plough all …
Panic.
“This is Peggy,” Josephine explained as she entered the room. Peggy walked behind her looking very solemn and watchful. Josephine …
Great Goodness.
It was so early in the morning that the light seemed to sting like antiseptic. The boy detective was crossing …
The Retrial of Meursault.
[Scene: A swelteringly hot courtroom in Algeria. Three judges, two in black and the third in scarlet, enter the courtroom …
Army in Place.
There were seven McSweenies in all. By now, all of them were men – the youngest was twenty-one and the …
Postscript: Layton Williams and what to do when things go wrong at the Edinburgh Fringe.
During this year’s Fringe, there was a spot of trouble in paradise. Layton Williams, a 23-year-old actor and performer, was …
The Windrush Scandal: British Citizenship Should Become Unconditional After Three Years.
Callooh! Callay! for the UK’s Antillean migrants. The Home Secretary Amber Rudd promised this afternoon that their applications for British …
A Closer Look at Mear One’s Mural.
“I sincerely regret that I did not look more closely at the image I was commenting on.” The Labour leader …
Introducing the Detective.
The house looked immediately like a stroke of mischief. It was from the late-Victorian period and so symmetrical that it …
The Big Black Man.
The big black man stood in the entrance to the bank’s cafeteria. He was emblazoned on a tall, free-standing plastic …
Tychy@ the Fringe: The Fall.
[Seven actors from the University of Cape Town’s Baxter Theatre Centre enter. They march, dance, and sing.] Cleo Raatus: I …
Book Review: Riotous Assembly.
Tom Sharpe’s fiction can be compared to the single-wheeled electric scooter – a fantastic invention and widely admired, but one …
Trashing Tunisia.
Whenever history is written, some voices are carefully remembered and others are not fished back up from out of the …
