Wigton
It’s grim up north: Malc’s Boy, by Shaun Wilson, reviewed
In this work of autofiction, shocking violence is meted out to a small boy by his father in Wigton - leaving one wondering how the two are getting along these days
The sorrows of the young Melvyn Bragg
His first impression of Oxford University in 1958 was of ‘effortless wealth and privilege everywhere’ and, feeling like a foreigner, he pined for the familiarity of close-knit Wigton
Rory Stewart’s romantic view of Cumbria is wide of the mark
The former MP for Penrith and the Border prefers to ignore the depleted uplands and poisoned lakes as he rhapsodises about the landscape’s ‘improbable beauty’
