A group of authors will come together to discuss Portsmouth as a place to visit and reflect on the realities of travel and place writing at local, national and international levels. The discussion will be [… read more ]
Portsmouth-based author Tom Sykes will publish his new book The Years of Travelling Anxiously on 26th March. Over the last twenty years, Tom has been lucky enough to travel all over the world. But his [… read more ]
Abdelraheem Hamad is one of the ‘Gaza 40’ students, who were evacuated by the British government to take up scholarships to study in universities here. He tells Ivana Domozetska his story. ‘I just see unwanted [… read more ]
On December 9th, S&C Founding Editor and author Tom Sykes will be launching Tangled Saviours, an energetic, imaginative and self-aware novel of race, gender, culture, prejudice and redemption. Extraordinary characters connect across time and space [… read more ]
Local writer Tom Sykes presented his new book about our deteriorating seaside communities at Southsea Library. Peter Gruner reports. Coast of Teeth: Travels to English Seaside Towns in an Age of Anxiety, with drawings by [… 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 ]
Father Claro Conde, Parish Priest of the Corpus Christi with St Joseph diocese in Portsmouth, has been raising awareness about the British-based Filipinos who have died from COVID-19 and providing moral and spiritual support to [… read more ]
Like many other arts organisations around Britain, Portsmouth’s Aspex Gallery is adapting to the unparalleled new landscape that COVID-19 has shaped. S&C Founding Editor Tom Sykes discusses sustainability, new tech solutions and the changing role [… read more ]
In light of a new survey indicating that half of British employees will likely be working more remotely and flexibly after the COVID-19 lockdown ends, S&C Founding Editor Tom Sykes talks to Marc Cook about [… read more ]
In the second part of her interview with S&C Founding Editor Tom Sykes, Cllr Claire Udy, Leader of the Progressive Portsmouth People Group on Portsmouth City Council, discusses workplace safety, police enforcement of the lockdown [… read more ]
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