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All Aboard
By Sue Harper Sarah had signed up to go on a 10-day cruise. She had great misgivings about it: she might be stuck in a floating gin palace with intolerable bores, she might have a [… read more ]
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Wolf Moon: The Ranulph Fables Episode 6
By Anne Paton-Cragg The story so far New to Portsmouth, Ranulph the wolf lodges with feisty fox Trixie, and the two of them have a stall selling “wild food wraps” on the seafront. Ranulph [… read more ]
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Wolf Moon: The Ranulph Fables Episode 5
By Anne Paton-Cragg The story so far New to Portsmouth, Ranulph the wolf has found lodgings with feisty fox Trixie, and the two of them have set up a stall selling “wild food wraps” on [… read more ]
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Wolf Moon: The Ranulph Fables Episode 4
By Anne Paton-Cragg The story so far New to Portsmouth, Ranulph the wolf has found lodgings with feisty fox Trixie, and the two of them have set up a stall selling “wild food wraps” on [… read more ]
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Wolf Moon: The Ranulph Fables Episode 3
By Anne Paton-Cragg The story so far New to Portsmouth, Ranulph the wolf has found lodgings with feisty fox Trixie, and the two of them have set up a stall selling “wild food wraps” on [… read more ]
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Wolf Moon: The Ranulph Fables Episode 2
by Anne Paton-Cragg The story so far A disappointing experience with rascally fox Tod has taught our hero Ranulph the need for circumspection. That doesn’t dissuade him from lodging with Tod’s feisty sister, Trixie. In [… read more ]
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Wolf Moon: The Ranulph Fables Episode 1
by Anne Paton-Cragg Introduction to Wolf Moon: The Ranulph Fables This is the first of six stories about a wolf called Ranulph, newly arrived in Portsmouth. Against the wishes of his mother and uncle, Ranulph [… read more ]
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Emily: A Portsmouth Story of Mental Health in the Great War
We present the opening chapter of Emily, Christine Lawrence‘s novel set in the Portsmouth Borough Asylum in the latter years of World War I. Based on real-life stories and events from the time, it was [… read more ]
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Body Image
By Jane Andreoli Body image is a curious thing, thought Clara as she adjusted her weight in the chair. She could classify herself an anorexic, because whenever she looked at herself in a mirror, she [… read more ]
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The Haircut
By Anne Paton-Cragg ‘If you book the middle seats we’ll be able to see the subtitles better,’ Fiona suggested. Subtitles? Singaporeans were always hopping between languages and dialects. English, the medium of education, was a [… read more ]