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Nothing works: The End of Everything, by John M. Harrison, reviewed

13 June 2026 9:00 am

Set in ‘one of the well-known seasonal waterside art towns of Kent’, Harrison’s novel is both a bracing vision of environmental collapse and a post-Brexit cri de coeur

Islands of inspiration: a poet’s life on Shetland

6 July 2024 9:00 am

Jen Hadfield is not only spellbound by the moods of the ocean and the hectic weather but by the Shaetlan dialect itself – which ‘struck me immediately as a poetic language’

Down to the sea again

13 August 2022 9:00 am

In the garden of my house in Cornwall there is a smooth granite stone about the size and shape of…