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Tom Doyle – Ringo: A Fab Life

Posted on October 26, 2025 by Johnny Mindlin

In the 70’s, he was a happy drunk … by the 80’s, he was just miserable! It is 1962. Ritchie Starkey – better known by his stage name of Ringo Starr – is widely acknowledged as the best drummer in … Continue reading →

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Scarlett Thomas – The Sleepwalkers

Posted on April 19, 2024 by Johnny Mindlin

You tell yourself “It’s OK, it’s OK … ” but it’s really not! Scarlett Thomas is a tricky novelist to categorise. She has a playful, restless, sleeves-rolled-up approach to writing, in which she seldom ducks the dark turn and the … Continue reading →

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Dr Thomas Halliday – Otherlands: A World in the Making

Posted on January 30, 2022 by Johnny Mindlin

Dr Thomas Halliday – Allen Lane – £20 Otherlands is a kind of travel book, traveling in time and across the globe, pushing back through the last half-billion years, showing you ever stranger beasts and more and more unfamiliar landscapes. … Continue reading →

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