Jackie Green recently picked up a book called The Hollow Sea to study its gorgeous gold lettering and turquoise blue cover that seemed to shimmer with an almost hypnotic life of its own. Turns out [… read more ]
Writing a 21st century family Christmas musical isn’t easy. Performed at the TPS Studio, Petersfield, Operation Santa weaves together the worlds of business, political injustice, fake news and Yuletide magic into a dramatic, touching and [… read more ]
Requiem for a Genius* Your mind so quick And slick Faster than a speeding bullet But unable to let Good reason Not become treason Surely I must be the best…. Your mind could not rest [… read more ]
It’s a rare and wonderful thing for a group of writers, amateur and professional, to come together and give of their best work completely free, to do their bit to save the planet. This is [… read more ]
When my novella Missing Words was published by Fairlight Books eighteen months ago, local author Loree Westron thought she could sit back and let the marketing folks do their business, watching the reviews roll in and [… read more ]
World-renowned climate scientists, astronomers and representatives from the United States’ foremost space research facility will gather at the University of Portsmouth for a public event devoted to NASA’s iconic ‘Blue Marble’ image of the Earth. [… read more ]
Writer and S&C founding editor Tom Sykes and illustrator Louis Netter are publishing a book next March entitled Coast of Teeth, a travelogue of 21 English seaside towns in an age of anxiety and absurdity. [… read more ]
Despite the torrential rain, every seat was taken for Wednesday’s performance of a collection of plays and monologues by Roger Goldsmith. S&C‘s own theatre critic Jackie Green reports. Southsea Cinema and Arts Centre’s first live [… read more ]
Portsmouth’s independent No 6 Cinema has launched a crowdfunding campaign to reduce ticket prices along with a programme of ‘feel-good’ films that may help many of us get through tough times ahead. Star & Crescent [… read more ]
From 1974 to 1978, Gosport-based writer and planetary modeller David Angus lived in South Africa. Here he shares the letters he wrote to his mother relating his experiences of hard labour, riots and the appalling [… read more ]
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