by Dawn Robinson-Walsh | Sep 26, 2023 | Book Review
Reading my usual crime fiction after absorbing Stephen Jackley’s memoir, Just Time, proved impossible, as his story truly is stranger than any fiction I have read. Stephen spent six years in twelve different prisons in the UK. Add on his time in prison in...
by Dawn Robinson-Walsh | Sep 14, 2023 | Arts, Book Review
In 2008 Stephen Jackley (a 21-year-old university student) was sentenced to 13 years for armed robbery and associated crimes. Dubbed by the press as “a latter-day Robin Hood” – but classified by the prison service a high escape-risk – Stephen served...
by Dawn Robinson-Walsh | May 22, 2023 | Arts, Book Review, Cornwall
Cornish author, Beth Lewis, grew up just outside Tintagel, but now lives in Oxford. She spent her childhood exploring the Trebarwith Valley’s thick bluebell woods and waterfalls, the coast around the Trebarwith Strand and the...
by Dawn Robinson-Walsh | May 6, 2023 | Arts, Book Review, Bude
Bude Library has, or can obtain, so many books that a good number are worth reviewing and sharing. The mix of books available (and read) is eclectic, but let’s start in this series of reviews with Brunelleschi’s Dome by Ross King. Published in 2000, it is...
