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  On the Trail of Robert Burns

  John Cairney

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  Is there anything new to say about Robert Burns? John Cairney says it's time to trash Burns the Brand and come on the trail of the real Robert Burns. He is the best of travelling companions on the convivial, entertaining journey to the heart of the Burns story.
  Alloway – Burns' birthplace. Tam O' Shanter draws on the Alloway Kirk witch stories first heard by Burns in his childhood
  Mossgiel – Between 1784 and 1786 in a phenomenal burst out of creativity, Burns wrote some of his most memorable poems including 'Holy Willie's Prayer' and 'To a Mouse'
  Kilmarnock – The famous Kilmarnock edition of Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect published in 1786
  Edinburgh – Fame and Clarinda (among others) embraced him.
  Dumfries – Burns died at the age of 37. The trail ends at the Burns Mausoleum in St Michael's Church graveyard.
  Internationally known as 'the face of Robert Burns', John Cairney believes that the traditional Burns tourist trail urgently needs to find a new direction. In an acting career spanning 40 years, he has often lived and breathed Robert Burns on stage. On the Trail of Robert Burns shows just how well he has got under the skin of Burns' character. This fascinating journey around Scotland is a rediscovery of Scotland's national bard as a flesh and blood genius.

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  Airplane Mode - An Irreverent...

  Shahnaz Habib

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  Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals of Excellence 
   
   
   
  The conditions of travel have long been dictated by the color of passports and the color of skin. 
   
   
   
  The color of one's skin and passport have long dictated the conditions of travel.  For Shahnaz Habib, travel and travel writing have always been complicated pleasures. Habib threads the history of travel with her personal story as a child on family vacations in India, an adult curious about the world, and an immigrant for whom roundtrips are an annual fact of life. Tracing the power dynamics that underlie tourism, this insightful debut parses who gets to travel, and who gets to write about the experience. 
   
   
   
  Threaded through the book are inviting and playful analyses of obvious and not-so-obvious travel artifacts: passports, carousels, bougainvilleas, guidebooks, trains, the idea of wanderlust itself. Together, they tell a subversive history of travel as a Euro-American mode of consumerism—but as any traveler knows, travel is more than that. As an immigrant whose loved ones live across continents, Habib takes a deeply curious and joyful look at a troubled and beloved activity.

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  New Welsh Review 135 (summer...

  Philippa Holloway, Satterday...

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  Bringing together the best of Wales' review-essays, including a comparison of new editions of nature classics, 'Back to the Land' by Pippa Marland. The books under review, Thomas Firbank's I Bought a Mountain and Margiad Evans' Autobiography take contrasting blustering and humble approaches to stepping over the sub/urban doorstep into nature. A showcase of new nonfiction, previewing forthcoming titles from some of Wales' key English-language publishers, exploring books on anti-Welsh media vitriol covering the early Manic Street Preachers, and historical flooding and the riches of an Eton-owned Benedictine fishery on the Gwent Levels. In original fiction: a wonderful story about a teenage boy on the cusp of bodily and emotional change, 'Trout', by Satterday Shaw, and a second, finely crafted story about the effect of geographical dislocation on teenage identity emergence, 'Another Place' by Philippa Holloway, set on Crosby beach. Plus Editorial by Gwen Davies and a new opinion feature, Last Page, by Richard Lewis Davies, in which the writers note that magazines in Wales are undergoing a transition, during which readers and subscribers will need to step up to the plate if a commitment to expressing – without interference - our particular place and time, is to be maintained.
  EDITORIAL
  Half-in, half-out Gwen Davies
  NONFICTION
  Bears at the Fridge: From Goldcliff to Whitson Preview extract from This Stolen Land by Marsha O'Mahony
  The Kinnock Factor: The Manics and Anti-Welshness Edited abridged preview from International Velvet by Neil Collins
  FICTION
  Another Place Story by Philippa Holloway
  Trout Story by Satterday Shaw
  ESSAYS
  Dark Formula Timothy Laurence Marsh on why reckless travel writing matters
  Books for Alien Girls JL George's personal and practical reflections on the role neurodivergence can and should play when writing fiction
  REVIEW-ESSAYS
  Back to the Land Pippa Marland on two nature memoir classics, one of hubristic bluster, the other humbly receptive
  'Queer Old Codgers' Claire Pickard on the portrayal of highly nuanced gay identities and history in recent nonfiction titles and a major short story anthology
  THE LAST PAGE
  Back to the Future Richard Lewis Davies on how a culture with ambition needs critics and readers

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  Drive Like An Action Hero - One...

  Craig Hinkle

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  Drive Like an Action Hero tells the story from the moment Craig passed his permit test to the life-changing tickets and ultimate accident that forever altered his attitude toward driving.  After years of Craig's risky adventures and over-the-top escapades, he was forced to re-examine himself and re-evaluate the way he treated his car, and more importantly, the people in his car and the law.

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  Conflict Over Art - Get Rid of...

  Jack Tennyson

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  Art is more than a form of expression—it’s a journey of creativity, emotion, and personal growth. Yet, many artists and creative individuals face obstacles that block their full potential, whether they are internal doubts, external criticism, or professional challenges. Conflict Over Art: Get Rid of What’s Standing in Your Way is an empowering audiobook designed to help you overcome these barriers and reclaim your creative freedom. 
  Drawing on insights from psychology, creative coaching, and artistic practice, this audiobook guides listeners through the process of identifying and removing the blocks that prevent artistic expression. It teaches how to confront fears, navigate criticism, and turn challenges into catalysts for growth. 
  Listeners will learn how to:Recognize and overcome internal doubts and self-sabotage.Handle external conflicts, critiques, and obstacles constructively.Cultivate resilience and confidence as an artist.Transform frustration and setbacks into creative breakthroughs.Reconnect with the joy and purpose of artistic creation. 
  Whether you are a professional artist, hobbyist, or someone seeking to embrace creativity in everyday life, Conflict Over Art offers practical strategies and inspiring guidance to clear the path and let your creativity flourish without limits.

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  The Strange Death of David Kelly

  Norman Baker

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  "Anyone can commit a murder, but it takes an artist to commit a suicide." – Old KGB saying
  The high-profile death of government weapons inspector Dr David Kelly twenty-one years ago, amid the tumult of Britain's controversial invasion of Iraq, plunged the New Labour government into crisis and led to the resignation of the BBC's director general. An informal inquiry chaired by Lord Hutton into the circumstances surrounding Kelly's death cleared the government of wrongdoing but was widely dismissed as a whitewash.
  The Strange Death of David Kelly argues that neither the medical evidence nor David Kelly's state of mind and personality supported the verdict of suicide.
  Analysing the official process instigated after Kelly's death, putting the entire episode into its political context and scrutinising the actions of the government in launching the Iraq War, this new edition of the instant bestseller is fully updated to include the latest evidence and theories surrounding this most mysterious and political of deaths.

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