Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: keeping it real in an engrossing, amusing and life affirming novel – in Paul Auster’s The Brooklyn Follies
Book Review: The Brooklyn Follies, by Paul Auster The opening line of the novel seems at odds as to what…
Rapscallion Magazine: notes on angry motorists, cowardly dogs, pointless cycle paths and Chelsea Tractors by a harmless cyclist
On a cycle ride across England recently Harry Mottram made some observations on cycle paths and road users that make…
Rapscallion Magazine Feature: in part four and the final account of Harry’s cycle ride from Land’s End to John O’Groats – a meeting with my best man, views over Cumbria on Shap Fell, soaked in Preston, dialling 999 and a life-saving heart operation in Carlisle
The story so far: I had completed the section from Land’s End to my home in Axbridge in three days…
Rapscallion Magazine Theatre Review: the Minack Theatre was the perfect setting for a production of The French Lieutenant’s Woman but at times the wind and rain were the main characters
The French Lieutenant’s Woman, Minack Theatre Hugh Grant, Jude Law, Arnold Schwarzenegger and even a few of my friends –…
Rapscallion Magazine Feature: part three of Harry’s cycle ride from Land’s End to John O’Groats – the lost roads of England with Ashley, a wet wedding and the signs on a toilet cubicle door which suggests cottaging hasn’t died out in Exeter
The story so far: I arrived in Cornwall and camped near Land’s End and set off on a sunny morning…
Rapscallion Magazine Feature: part two of Harry’s cycle ride from Land’s End to John O’Groats – robbed on the train to Penzance, death of an actor, and a deserted Land’s End
The story so far: following my recovery from a near fatal road accident I’ve been given the all clear by…
Rapscallion Magazine Feature: The French Lieutenant’s Woman – sexual frustration, class injustice and misogyny in 19th century Lyme Regis in John Fowles’ novel and Pinter’s film script
By Harry Mottram: Frankly Charles is a bit of an idiot. He’s sexually frustrated and isn’t in love with his…
Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: from Edwardian England to the devastation of war and a sniper’s bullet – Joanna Quinn’s The Whalebone Theatre is an epic family saga
The Whalebone Theatre, by Joanna Quinn. Review. An upper-class family bohemian fantasy or a snapshot of early 20th century live…
Rapscallion Magazine: radio review of The Empire of Tea – the leaf beloved by a nation but picked by slaves for the British Empire
Like most people I love a brew up as a thirst quenching excuse to stop work and read the paper,…
Rapscallion Magazine Radio Review: the misery of school sports on freezing pitches in mid January and the repressed violence of old school PE teachers
By Harry Mottram: If like me you like Matthew Sweet’s regular music series on BBC Radio Three, The Sound of…