How Not to Be a Boy
Robert Webb stays true to his comedic roots with How Not to be a Boy. In what is perhaps best described as a memoir-with-an-agenda, the book sees Webb look back…
Spinning
Tillie Walden, in her most recent graphic novel, Spinning, details her eventful teenage life as a figure skater. Her memoir begins with her move to Austin at the age of…
Liverpool Gangs, Vice and Packet Rats: 19th Century Crime and Punishment
Archibald’s Liverpool Gangs, Vice and Packet Rats: 19th Century Crime and Punishment is an intriguing account of the history of crime in what is now one of the largest metropolitan…
Tongue Tied & Twisted – Indian Tales; Contemporary Twist
As is claimed on the Scottish International Storytelling Festival website, ‘storytelling is play’. This seemingly simple statement is surprisingly difficult to execute, especially in a 90-minute aural performance. However, uncle…
World of the Bear (Scottish International Storytelling Festival)
The small auditorium is so quiet you could hear a pin drop. All attention is focused on the two storytellers seated on wooden chairs in the middle of a stage…
Where Snakes can Sing: Stories from Poland (Scottish International Storytelling Festival)
‘Because I am the embodiment of Polish National identity, I will tell you two stories: one Jewish, one Lithuanian.’ This is how Malgorzata Litwinowicz began fifty-minutes of storytelling on a…
Open Hearth: Mara Menzies (Scottish International Storytelling Festival)
As part of the Scottish International Storytelling Festival 2017, the daily Open Hearth evenings are a great way to end a hectic day – with a variety of different guest…
Thatcher Stole My Trousers
To the younger generation, the name Alexei Sayle may not set many bells ringing. However, skip back to the late 1970s and this communist Jew from Liverpool was at the…