The Sunday Herald back issues from July 2008:
Support for independence slips slightly POLITICS: OPINION POLL POLITICS: OPINION POLL Nationalists and Unionists now neck and neck
Jul 06, 2008; ... SUPPORT for ndependence has dropped slightly in the fi rstopinion poll conducted since the SNP government's firstparliamentary session in office. The TNS System Three survey shows that 39per cent of respondentswant Alex Salmond's administration to negotiate for independencewith ...
It's catch-22 for the Nationalists
Jul 06, 2008 ... SCOTLAND remains split on independence but there is a much higherlevel of support for it than in the past, according to results fromthe latest poll. The increase in support occurred in the latter part of last year,unsurprisingly just after the SNP came to power. While the SNP ...
Rumbles: Give Scotland full control of economy LIBDEMS: LEADERSHIP
Jul 06, 2008; ... MIKE Rumbles, the outsider candidate in the Liberal Democratleadership contest, says he wants to see Scotland taking fullcontrol of its economy, and getting a slice of North Sea oil. Rumbles also says he wants to clarify his party's "inconsistent"policy on referenda and believes ...
Labour's poisoned chalice: fourth choice Curran to fight by- election FIRST CANDIDATE RYAN CITES 'PRESSURES' FOR WITHDRAWAL GLASGOW LEADER PURCELL AND MSP MCAVEETY REFUSE CURRAN IS 'DEEPLY COMMITTED' TO FIGHTING BY-ELECTION RIVALS CLAIM LABOUR CAMPAIGN IS SHAMBLES
Jul 06, 2008; ... SCOTTISH Labour's attempt to win the Glasgow East Westminsterbyelection and save Gordon Brown's job has suffered a humiliationafter it emerged the party was about to select its fourth-choicecandidate. Margaret Curran, already an MSP in the city, is likely to becomeLabour's pick ...
Asylum row could cost Scotland a football star SPORT: IMMIGRATION SPORT: IMMIGRATION Home Office only barrier to contract for 16- year-old
Jul 06, 2008; ... A SCHOOLBOY footballer from one of the most war-torn parts ofAfrica faces career ruin because the Home Offi ce won't make adecision on whether he can stay in Scotland. Christian Kisuka, 16, who s being sought by Aberdeen FC, is stillwaiting for a decision on his asylum application ...
Oscar winner brings 'anti-film festival' to Nairn Entrance fee to Tilda Swinton's venture is a tray of cakes Entrance fee to Tilda Swinton's venture is a tray of cakes ARTS: INITIATIVE
Jul 06, 2008; ... IT promises to be as playful and unorthodox a film festival asthe movies it plans to show: there will be no new films, everyonesits on beanbags, entry is either GBP3 or a tray of fairy cakes andit will be held in an old bingo hall converted into a Las Vegasdaydream. When there are no ...
Scots MEP cleared after investigation EXPENSES: PROBE
Jul 06, 2008; ... A SCOTTISH Tory MEP at the centre of an expenses probe has beencleared by the European parliamentary authorities. John Purvis, under investigation for ploughing thousands ofpounds of taxpayers' money into a firm of which he was a partner,has been told that "no material conflict of ...
CONNOLLY IN FOLK TRIBUTE
Jul 06, 2008 ... Comedian Billy Connolly appeared last night via a speciallyrecorded video at a memorial concert for his friend, folk musicianDanny Kyle, at Paisley Town Hall. The ...
BOY, 13, KILLED IN CRASH
Jul 06, 2008 ... A 12-year-old boy was killed when his mini-motorcycle collidedwith a car on Friday in Clackmannanshire. Police closed Gartmorn Road in ...
BOGNOR BIRDMAN WIN
Jul 06, 2008 ... Strong winds threatened to stop competitors attempting to flyfrom a pier yesterday in the annual International Bognor ...
Bid to ban peatland wind farms comes under attack Tory Struan Stevenson accused of 'bad science' and 'showboating' Tory Struan Stevenson accused of 'bad science' and 'showboating' ENVIRONMENT: SUSTAINABLE ENERGY
Jul 06, 2008; ... A HIGH-PROFILE campaign to ban wind farms from peat bogs has comeunder sustained attack in the wake of new scientific evidence onclimate pollution. Scottish Conservative MEP Struan Stevenson has been campaigningfor a moratorium on wind developments on peatlands. Damaging thepeat ...
Rig workers who whistleblow over safety issues are 'routinely sacked' Twenty years after the Piper Alpha disaster, unions warn of 'culture of fear' over safety on North Sea oil platforms, reports Home Affairs Editor John Bynorth
Jul 06, 2008; ... NORTH Sea oil workers who whistleblow about safety issues areroutinely sacked, creating a "culture of fear" 20 years after thePiper Alpha disaster, one of Scotland's leading trade unionists hasclaimed. The STUC has warned the practice could result in another disastersimilar to ...
"I was taken by a passage in The Cruel Sea. Someone is talking about dying at sea. He said you can die well or die badly" A SURVIVOR'S STORY INTERVIEW BY JOHN BYNORTH
Jul 06, 2008; ... PIPER Alpha survivor Ed Punchard's grip was loosening on the ropewhich was his only lifeline after he was blown off a standby boatnear the stricken oil platform into the North Sea. As waves crashed over his head, forcing him under the freezingsea, Punchard's thoughts drifted to his ...
BMA: Labels should show liver damage HEALTH: ALCOHOL
Jul 06, 2008; ... BEER and wine bottles should carry graphic images of diseas edlivers similar to ampaigns featured on cigarette boxes in an effortto curb the country's alcohol abuse, the British Medical Association(BMA) will propose this week. As part of the BMA's campaign against "the growing ...
Offbeat rival takes on Edinburgh book festival Low-budget event attracts top writers including Ian Rankin Low-budget event attracts top writers including Ian Rankin ARTS: LITERATURE
Jul 06, 2008; ... THE Edinburgh International Book Festival has got a fight on itshands this summer. A literary festival which costs nothing to attendand doesn't pay its performing writers a penny is to launch at thesame time as the capital's world-famous event. The West Port Book Festival has ...
Enterprise agency has 'hidden' funicular railway's multi-million pound problems Documents reveal that facilities on the ski resort badly require repairs Documents reveal that facilities on the ski resort badly require repairs CAIRNGORMS: ROW
Jul 06, 2008; ... THE Forestry Commission has accused Highlands and IslandsEnterprise of trying to hide the multi-million pound problemsplaguing the controversial Cairngorm mountain railway. Internal documents from the commission reveal many of thefacilities at the ski resort on the Cairngorm estate ...
DISCONTENT: IS THAT 1970s SINKING FEELING COMING BACK TO HAUNT US? As public sector workers ballot for strike action, concern is growing that Britain is facing a repeat of the Winter of Discontent. But were the dark days of 1978-1979 really so bad? Political commentator Iain Macwhirter recalls that era
Jul 06, 2008; ... THE Winter of Discontent in 1979, when "the rubbish wentuncollected in the streets and the dead lay unburied in themortuaries", was the climax to a pretty dismal decade. But it wasnothing like as bad as what was to come. The 1980s have had a betterpress, but only because history is ...
M74 extension 'breaches' green objectives Memo reveals secret advice given to ministers Memo reveals secret advice given to ministers MOTORWAY: PLAN
Jul 06, 2008; ... THE government's plan to extend the M74 into Glasgow willundermine targets to cut air pollution and combat climate chaos,according to secret advice given to ministers. A memo from officials to former environment minister Ross Finniein 2005 warned that building the fi ve-mile, ...
Running the hauf-way hoose . . . into the ground OPINION & DEBATE OPINION & DEBATE JAMES CUSICK ON SNP STRATEGY
Jul 06, 2008; ... NATIONALISTS with a sensitive disposition should look away now.What follows is criticism of the Scottish National Party's dualstrategy of being seen to successfully and efficiently run theHolyrood parliament while simultaneously undermining and destroyingits institutional ...
Predictions suggest diplomacy will win . . . but beware the unpredictable REALPOLITIK TREVOR ROYLE
Jul 06, 2008; ... SOMETIMES diplomacy is more about reading the runes thanlistening to those who have the ear of those in the know. Take thenot-so-little matter of a pre-emptive strike to take out Iran'suranium enrichment programme. If you heed the warnings of hawks likeJohn Bolton, former US ambassador ...
BEST BLOGS
Jul 06, 2008 ... SEEING RED ON GREEN ISSUES As someone with very strong working-class roots I get verycheesed off with the standard "criticism" that environmentalism isjust for the well-off, a middle-class luxury. This is rubbish.http: // vowlesthegreen.blogspot. com/ CHECK THIS OUT, ...
Courting Tories is in vogue UNDERCURRENT JAMES CUSICK
Jul 06, 2008; ... IF Barack Obama wins the US presidency in November, it will behard to hire a removal van in Washington for months. A change ofpresident is bad enough for the American capital, where politics isthe dominant industry, but a change of party, from Republican toDemocrat, will see vast swaths ...
A means to security that'll keep us afloat? IAN BELL ON WAR MACHINES IAN BELL ON WAR MACHINES COLUMNIST OF THE YEAR
Jul 06, 2008; ... I'M not a pacifi st. It counts as one of my many flaws, no doubt. I admire anyone who insists on believing a rotten world can beimproved. I certainly prefer people who stick with non-violence tothe alleged Christians who missed the Q&A on killing, and why thoushalt not (no ...
Parades are out of Order McCHATTER NEIL MACKAY
Jul 06, 2008; ... AS an ex-pat from Northern Ireland living in Glasgow, I wasrudely awoken yesterday morning by a bunch of guys in bowler hatsand sashes marching around with a flute and drum accompaniment andcelebrating a conflict some 300 years and more old that still badlytarnishes my country, and ...
Bring on the age of people's choice for our new politicians TOM SHIELDS ON PARTY LEADERSHIP
Jul 06, 2008 ... It is a busy old time in the political departure lounge. WendyAlexander has bowed to the inevitable and will be able to spend moretime with her bairns; Nicol Stephen has announced his intention todemit the LibDem leadership at Holyrood for the sake of his youngchildren; and Gordon Brown, ...
An attitude worth curling your upper lip about ROXANNE SOROOSHIAN ON WIMBLEDON BIAS
Jul 06, 2008; ... IT'S time to cling-fi lm the strawberries and recork the barleywater. But as Wimbledon bows out and drops a fi nal curtsy, don't beglum. Just think how unbearable life would be in Scotland if AndyMurray had actually won. The English media would have been apoplectic. I fear that, ...
MAIL IN PRINT . . . AND ONLINE
Jul 06, 2008 ... Surface horrors hide the real crimes I FIRST came across Abu Ghraib 23 years ago when I was designingthe extension of the water supply system in Baghdad. I was forbidden to go there, for it was indeed an evil place.Little did I think that one day only the nature of that evil ...
When even a safe seat can be no guarantee EDITORIAL
Jul 06, 2008 ... With Glasgow East holding the potential for becoming the"goodbye" election of Gordon Brown's premiership (if Labour somehowmisplaces a 13,500 majority), you would expect a carefullychoreographed and politically tight, no-nonsense show from the partyof government. A tutored ...
MAIL IN PRINT . . . AND ONLINE
Jul 06, 2008 ... Surface horrors hide the real crimes I FIRST came across Abu Ghraib 23 years ago when I was designingthe extension of the water supply system in Baghdad. I was forbidden to go there, for it was indeed an evil place.Little did I think that one day only the nature of that evil ...
STOCKS FOCUS: ROBERT WISEMAN DAIRIES
Jul 06, 2008; ... ROBERT Wiseman Dairies hinted at an increase in prices to counterthe effects of rising oil and packaging costs. Chairman Alan Wisemanadmitted that while 2008 had so far been a difficult year, thecompany was on track to meet forecasts. Sales in the first threemonths were about 2per cent ...
STOCKS FOCUS: WOOD GROUP
Jul 06, 2008; ... WOOD Group, the Scottish oil services giant, delivered a strongtrading statement for the six months to June 30, pointing tocontinuing "positive momentum" and a good performance by alldivisions. Tipped to seek out acquisitions on the back of a boomingenergy sector, Aberdeen-based ...
STOCKS FOCUS: TRINITY MIRROR
Jul 06, 2008; ... TRINITY Mirror, which issued a profit warning last week,announced the redundancies of 11 subeditors and revealed plans tocreate a central production unit for its national newspaperdivision. The publisher, which said that Scottish titles the DailyRecord and Sunday Mail would ...
STOCKS FOCUS: VODAFONE
Jul 06, 2008; ... MOBILE phone giant Vodafone agreed to acquire a 70per cent stakein Ghana's state-owned telecoms company for dollars900 million(GBP452m). The world's largest mobile phone operator is looking toemerging markets as its traditional operations in western Europeface intense competition and ...
JOHN PHELPS PORTFOLIO: SHARES UPDATE
Jul 06, 2008; ... WE decided to take advantage of the economic gloom to make aGBP2000 investment in shares of insolvency expert Begbies Traynor atour weekly review on Wednesday morning. The company is likely toreport this week that it is seeing a rush of business from debt-ridden firms which have seen ...
MEDIA WATCH
Jul 06, 2008 ... IN a missive from Real Radio Scotland headquarters this week, MWdiscovers a date has finally been set for a meeting between Realmanaging director Billy Anderson and Paul Cooney, overseer of radiosClyde and Forth. Anderson laid down the gauntlet earlier this year by proposing ...
Scottish newspapers accused of shirking investigative duties Lockerbie trial cited by former UN monitor as prime example of reporters failing to ask right questions Lockerbie trial cited by former UN monitor as prime example of reporters failing to ask right questions JOURNALISM: STANDARDS ATTACKED
Jul 06, 2008; ... WHEN readers are asked what they want more of in newspapers theanswer is often great, jaw-dropping scoops. Yet investigativereporting - the discipline behind many such stories - isincreasingly seen by many newspaper executives as too expensive tobother with. This is certainly the ...
Fighting for a fit future SCOTT SHARKEY INTERVIEW OF THE WEEK BY STEVEN VASS
Jul 06, 2008; ... THE midnight oil has been burning down Musselburgh way. So saysScott Sharkey, the refreshingly candid chief executive of interiorsspecialist Sharkey Fit Out. He has spent the past couple of months plotting the future of thecompany after his brother Stephen, the managing director, ...
SHAKE MOVES INTO AFRICA
Jul 06, 2008 ... Shake Interactive, an Edinburgh-based digital and mobilemarketing agency, has expanded into South Africa and the US withsupport from the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). Founded three years ago, Shake has acquired a 40per centcontrolling stake in South Africa's leading mobile internet ...
NEW TASTES OF BRUICHLADDICH
Jul 06, 2008 ... Single malt whisky brand Bruichladdich has released three"dramatic" new versions of its multi-vintage range, each assembledby renowned whisky expert Jim McEwan from several ages ...
NEW ROLE FOR MACPHERSON
Jul 06, 2008 ... Shonaig Macpherson, one of Scotland's most prominent businessleaders, has been appointed chairwoman of the BT Scotland board. Shetakes over from current chairman Iain Robertson, former chiefexecutive of the Royal Bank of Scotland's (RBS) ...
Licence sale may mean money doesn't grow on family trees Brightsolid faces competition as Scottish government prepares to open access to data Brightsolid faces competition as Scottish government prepares to open access to data INTERNET: GENEALOGY
Jul 06, 2008; ... A SCOTTISH web company's plan to use the online sale of familytree information to drive sales could be damaged by government movesto offer licences for the same information to the company'scompetitors. Brightsolid, which is owned by Dundee newspaper group DC Thomsonand run by ...
Insurance on offer against interest rate rises
Jul 06, 2008 ... AN insurance company is offering protection to borrowers worriedabout rises in interest rates. MarketGuard will insure your mortgagefor two years against any increases in the Bank of England base ratethat directly affect your monthly payments, above a chosen excess. So, if you have ...
Cheap fixed-loan holders facing tougher times as new deals pass the 7per cent barrier
Jul 06, 2008 ... BORROWERS who took out cheap fixed-rate mortgages a few years agoare in for a payment shock when their deals expire. About 1.4 million people have a fi xedrate loan due to come to anend this year - and July could be a particularly painful month.Research by Moneysupermarket shows ...
Hamilton fighting fit for SPL debut, says manager
Jul 06, 2008; ... HAMILTON manager Billy Reid insists his side are fighting fit asthey prepare for their debut season in the Clydesdale Bank PremierLeague. Reid said that his players have been keeping themselves in goodshape as they get ready for the challenges of the top tier. TheHamilton manager ...
County players to prove themselves
Jul 06, 2008; ... DEREK Adams believes a desire to rebuild battered reputations caninspire Ross County to First Division success. The Dingwall club's manager has sensed many of his players areentering the season feeling they have something to prove. Although Adams is cautious about the ...
Annan to copy Gretna in pursuit of Cumbrian support Despite the fall from grace of the team they have replaced, the SFL new boys are hoping to tap into Carlisle United's fanbase, writes Michael Grant
Jul 06, 2008; ... HAVING spent an entire election campaign trying to distancethemselves from their discredited neighbours, it was time for Annanto come clean. It seems they will try to copy Gretna after all. When the dust had settled on the vote that elected them to theScottish League last week, and ...
Flamenco is wrong dance for Burley ON THE SPOT MICHAEL GRANT
Jul 06, 2008; ... EURO 2008 might have been the first tournament in history whichcould be enjoyed by everyone except professional footballers. Howcould they take in Spain's triumph without wanting to hide behindthe sofa with embarrassment? Put it this way: what's the great quality which comes to ...
UNFINISHED BUSINESS Buying young and selling big. Assistant manager Ally McCoist explains the Ibrox club's recruitment strategy Buying young and selling big. Assistant manager Ally McCoist explains the Ibrox club's recruitment strategy RANGERS
Jul 06, 2008 ... IT WAS breakfast time in the lounge of a golf club and AllyMcCoist was in the mood to talk about two of the great loves of hislife. Not the 18 holes he was about to play at The Carrick Club nearLoch Lomond, nor the roll and sausage in his hand which he put awayquicker than a short ...
MIDNIGHT SUN BECKONS FOR THOSE IN TWILIGHT The planet's forgotten teams are gearing up for their biennial festival of football. In Lapland. Stewart Fisher reports The planet's forgotten teams are gearing up for their biennial festival of football. In Lapland. Stewart Fisher reports VIVA WORLD CUP
Jul 06, 2008; ... NOW the European Championships are out of the way, it must betime for the World Cup to begin. The Viva World Cup, that is. Forthe benefit of the uninitiated, the Viva World Cup is a biennialtournament which pits together those nations and peoples notrecognised, for whatever reason, by ...
CAPTAIN'S A TROOPER CRICKET: ENGLAND Vaughan will play despite problem knee flaring up again, reports David Clifford
Jul 06, 2008; ... MICHAEL Vaughan is unequivocal in his belief that he will notonly get through this week's first Test against South Africa but theentire npower series. The England captain had a recurrence of pain in his right kneealmost a fortnight ago, and was forced to undergo an ...
EARLY INCENTIVE INTERTOTO CUP The Uefa Cup might be the potential prize but Hibs are under-prepared for European competition, writes Michael Grant
Jul 06, 2008; ... HIBS have a lot more intelligence than IF Elfsborg. What a shamethat when the clubs meet at Easter Road this afternoon, a littlemore in the mental bank may turn out to be the only advantageScotland's representatives will have going into their openingIntertoto Cup tie. The 2008/09 ...
HEAVYWEIGHTS PROVE LIGHTWEIGHTS WITH FANS BOXING: PUNCHLINES BOXING: PUNCHLINES Klitschko takes to the ring but the US and Steve Bunce are waiting for David Haye
Jul 06, 2008 ... IN two weeks Big John McDermott from Essex fi ghts for the rightto challenge for the World Boxing Council heavyweight title. Next week a big, lumbering, nice guy called Tony Thompson fromWashington DC, gets his pension cheque when he fights for the WorldBoxing Organisation ...
VIVA GLASVEGAS THEY'VE BEEN HAILED AS 'THE BEST NEW BAND IN BRITAIN', AND CELEBRITY FANS ARE KNOCKING ON THE DOOR. HERE'S HOW ONE GLASGOW GROUP BET ON BLACK AND WON THE JACKPOT
Jul 06, 2008; ... TRY to get your head around this one. You grow up in Glasgow, youlove oldstyle rock'n'roll and Elvis Presley is one of your idols.You write a song called Daddy's Gone about your childhood memoriesof your absent father. It creates a bit of a buzz as a demo singleand can be heard across ...
FROM CRADLE TO THE GRAVE THE NHS WAS LAUNCHED WITH THE PROMISE OF OFFERING CARE FROM BIRTH UNTIL DEATH. SIX DECADES ON, PAUL DALGARNO TALKS TO SOME OF THE PEOPLE GIVING AND RECEIVING CARE AT BOTH ENDS OF THE SPECTRUM
Jul 06, 2008; ... EHERE in the place where my life started, death seems impossible.On the walls of Aberdeen's Forresterhill Hospital maternity ward,posters offer advice on breastfeeding. Mothers with bumps lie inbeds or sit in wheelchairs, waiting to push babies into the world.Crying in various pitches, ...
Nelson's total Eclipse Paul Wheeler sees Johnny Murtagh give Aidan O'Brien his 12th Group-One winner Paul Wheeler sees Johnny Murtagh give Aidan O'Brien his 12th Group-One winner SANDOWN
Jul 06, 2008; ... THE Glorious Twelfth came a month early at Sandown Park yesterdaybut it was racehorse trainers who were left taking cover and dodgingthe shot after Mount Nelson won the Coral-Eclipse Stakes. In 2001 Aidan O'Brien saddled the winners of 23 Group or GradeOne races across the world ...
SCULPTURE SHOCK KENNY HUNTER TURNS WORDSMITH FOR HIS NEW EXHIBITION
Jul 06, 2008; ... DURING Kenny Hunter's three-month residency at New York artcentre Location One in 2005, he explored the city, taking in the"weird quality of light" caused by the lack of direct sunpenetrating the concrete jungle. He observed the vast deposits of waste that would emerge on adaily ...
AROUND THE IN 80 DVDs
Jul 06, 2008; ... NO. 16 DENMARK DAY OF WRATH Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer (BFI, 1943) WITH a coastline that dips a toe in the North and Baltic Seas,Denmark could be the coldest cinema on the world's screens. At leastthat's how it appears when you consider the rather severe work ofits two ...
MODERN TAKE BRINGS ANTI-SEMITISM TO THE FORE THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
Jul 06, 2008 ... THE MERCHANT OF VENICE Botanic Gardens, Glasgow Until July 12 3stars THIS year, the Shakespeare mini-festival Bard In The Botanicsopened with an outdoor presentation of The Merchant Of Venice. Suchwere the weather conditions, however, that it might have been moreappropriate to ...
AN EXHIBITION TO STICK IN YOUR MIND ARTS REVIEW BY VICKY ALLAN ARTS REVIEW BY VICKY ALLAN ALLAN CATHY WILKES
Jul 06, 2008 ... CATHY WILKES The Modern Institute, Glasgow (until September 6) 4stars OF the current crop of Turner Prize nominees, Cathy Wilkes is theone whose work, in its physical presence, is actually the mostgenuinely unsettling. Hers is an art that leaves the observer with avague feeling ...
TRICKY OTHER RELEASES
Jul 06, 2008; ... TRICKY Knowle West Boy (Domino) * * * LABEL-less and itinerant since 2003's Vulnerable, Tricky hasfinally found a home with left-field indie Domino. It suits him. Thestoner menace and slo-mo sonics that were his trademark onMaxinquaye, Nearly God and Pre-Millennium Tension have ...
BIFFY CLYRO OTHER RELEASES
Jul 06, 2008; ... BIFFY CLYRO Singles 2001-2005 (Beggars Banquet) *** PITY the poor record labels who spend years developing andsupporting a band, only to see them sail to the top of the chartswith their fi rst release once they've jumped to a rival's biggership. Biffy Clyro had three Beggars ...
ARCHIE FISHER OTHER RELEASES
Jul 06, 2008; ... ARCHIE FISHER Windward Away (Greentrax) **** TWENTY years have passed since radio presenter and Scottish folkveteran Archie Fisher last made a studio recording. In fact, anentire decade has been and gone since he first signed up to recordthe session that forms Windward Away. And ...
WHERE'S IT AT, BECK? CD OF THE WEEK
Jul 06, 2008; ... BECK Modern Guilt (XL) *** FOR almost a decade, starting with 1996's junk shop hip-hopmasterpiece Odelay, a new album by Beck was a thing to get thrilledabout. Each time he reappeared, it was seemingly in a differentguise, and you were left guessing as to what he would come up ...
THE WORLD AT SEA AMITAV GHOSH HAS BEEN A TRAVELLER ALL HIS LIFE. NOW HE'S EMBARKING ON AN EPIC STUDY OF THE 19TH-CENTURY JOURNEYS THAT STILL REVERBERATE TODAY INTERVIEW BY JOHN FREEMAN
Jul 06, 2008; ... FOR a man who has spent a great deal of his life perched atoprattletrap buses and tunnelling down interstates, humping throughairport security queues on his way from India to America and backagain, Amitav Ghosh is oddly unmoved by the concept of arrival. "Idon't believe it exists, " says ...
SIMPLY READ
Jul 06, 2008; ... After Dark by Haruki Murakami. Vintage, GBP7.99 What happens? Inhabiting a landscape of all-night diners, Mari fl its roundtown, reading her book, waiting for dawn. A series of encounters,beginning with a friendly jazz trombonist, leads her into contactwith a former ...