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The Idler No.43 "Back to the Land', edited by Tom Hodgkinson

Features a long interview with, and two new sketches by David Hockney, essays on hedgehogs, the 13th century, the medieval guilds, land reform and the garden as a political statement. Contributors include Harry Mount, Paul Kingsnorth, Jay Griffiths, Penny Rimbaud, Jay Griffiths, Stanley Donwood and Clifford Harper. Buy yours here.

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"We Want Everyone - Facebook and the New American Right" by Tom Hodgkinson

Attack on Facebook. Third edition of 100 from Bracketpress on fine paper with letterpress cover. With new introduction. Numbered. Signed by the author. Buy yours here.

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Off out soon for more ghosts at The Lowry...

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A PLEASING TERROR: TWO GHOST STORIES BY M R JAMES

Performed by Robert Lloyd Parry

This critically acclaimed one-man show is an atmospheric retelling of two of the earliest and greatest tales by M R James - the master of the English ghost story.

In Canon Alberic's Scrap-book, a young Cambridge antiquary discovers the devil in the details of an old book in a medieval town in the French Pyrenees… In The Mezzotint a ghoulish revenge is enacted within a work of art, before the helpless eyes of a museum curator in Oxford . . .

A Pleasing Terror has been performed over 100 times since premiering in M R James old office in the Fitzwilliam Museum in December 2005. Many performances have been in venues closely associated with the author: Eton College, Great Livermere Church in Suffolk, the Fitzwilliam Museum, and the Provosts Lodge and Chapel of King's College, Cambridge.

A Pleasing Terror was nominated for the 2006 Dracula Society Hamilton Deane Award.

Suitable for ages 13+
Performance lasts approx 100 minutes including interval.
WARNING: CONTAINS MOMENTS OF PLEASING TERROR