Shaving and Plucking is a starkly honest look at the seemingly acceptable of emotional torture between man and wife. This particularily dark tale focuses on the insecurities associated with society’s image of feminine beauty and how an unscrupulous partner can manipulate these to their own advantage.
At times amusing, Shaving and Plucking is an engrossing and [...]

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With such a clashing of cultures in Edinburgh at this time of year it is always a delight to find some attention paid to a great native of the city. In this case it is a fresh adaptation of one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s mysteries.
In this tale, university dropout Sherlock Holmes travels to Edinburgh [...]

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The insecurities of adolescence have been made easier on recent generations due to the superb writings of Sue Townsend. The precocious daily ramblings of Adrian Mole (aged 13 34) brought some sense to the heady times of puberty and brought relief and mirth to teenagers everywhere. Now the delightful insights of a teenage boy have [...]

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