A Gruff act to follow for DonaldsonSince becoming the UK Children’s Laureate, author Julia Donaldson is enjoying talking about things other than how she wrote children’s classic ‘The Gruffalo’
Emigrants in landscapes of sentimentJane Urquhart’s latest novel deals with the Irish in Canada and it’s populated with characters inspired by her own family, their fear of change, and their obsession with landscape, writes ARMINTA WALLACE
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- Dollhouse
FLASH FICTION: IT WAS Joe, him and his wee girl. He made the house for her when she was at school, something to do now that he was on the dole.
- Jimmy Moon
FLASH FICTION: WHEN I WAS small, the house next door was a dark forbidding barn with no windows facing the road. It was surrounded by a high wall and sometimes, late at night, strange noises could be heard coming from the other side.
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Potshots from a sceptical scientistSCIENCE: The Science Delusion, By Rupert Sheldrake, Hodder & Stoughton, 382pp. £19.99
Too late to the Tea PartyPOLITICS: Pity the Billionaire: The Hard Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right, By Thomas Frank, Harvill Secker, 212pp. £14.99
