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A London family

“The boys” is about a small number of characters who live around northwest London and who, on the face of it, are not unduly troubled by the fractures and complexities of their world.   Sean Sheehan   There is little sense of crisis or despair and the novel itself reads […]

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Those who see and hear everything

The true need of creating a police body was due to with the appearance of the first national states and the rapid growth of cities and commerce. The first institutionalised police force that came about in the modern world was in the UK.   Silvio Gonzalez   Everyday life forced […]

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Behind the drinking culture

Wine, vodka, gin, beer, whisky, champagne, port, rum, absinthe, cider, ale… the catalogue of alcoholic drinks stocked on shelves across the country is almost as innumerable as the health issues ensuing from excessive use of them: cancer of the mouth, neck and throat; high-blood pressure, an irregular heart beat and […]

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A novel to last all summer

“The brothers Karamazov” is extraordinary. Mini-narratives, encounters and conversations between the characters proliferate like vegetation in a botanist’s rainforest fantasy. They spawn new stories by way of background to another story which is itself an offshoot of what looks to be the main story.   Sean Sheehan   The reader […]