Book Related Content - Spinebreakers

An Elaborate Attempt to Remember

By Imogen Ashfield / Spinebreakers Crew

Imogen's exercise to ‘Remember Remember’ John Smith who lives in Kent and likes camping, golf and television.

Flex Your Memory Bank

By Imogen Ashfield / Spinebreakers Crew

Mr Memory takes us on a journey through from fact to fact among vividly disorientating allusions with such ease that is intriguing, surprisingly engaging and sometimes genuinely quite funny.

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Celluloid Conversation

By Imogen Ashfield / Spinebreakers Crew

Imogen's article on David Thompson in Conversation with John Boorman and screening of ‘To Be Or Not To Be’ at the Barbican.

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Flicking Pictures

By Imogen Ashfield / Spinebreakers Crew

Imogen's review of Have You Seen...a Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films

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Remembering The Slave Trade

By Imogen Ashfield / Spinebreakers Crew

Imogen's essay inspired by Blonde Roots: 'Remembering the 10 to 12 million Africans taken to Europe and the Americas as slaves... and their descendants 1444-1888'

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Is Micro the New Macro?

By Imogen Ashfield / Spinebreakers Crew

Imogen's review of Microtrends. Beeping Tamagotchis and knotted up Yo-Yos are nowhere in sight in ‘Microtrends’

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Character Profile: The Black Rabbit

By Imogen Ashfield / Spinebreakers Crew

A character profile of (the mighty/the greatest/the amazing) Black Rabbit

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The fairground is usually a place for carefree recreation, roller coasters and candyfloss but their is a ‘madness’ seeping into the daytime summer haze in Kevin Brooks’ most recent novel ‘Black Rabbit Summer’.

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Blonde Roots, Dark Highlights

By Imogen Ashfield / Spinebreakers Crew

Tall, blonde, slim and a slave: Doris Scagglethorpe faces the terrors of bondage in the New World – but not as we thought it to be.

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Poverty, alcoholism, abuse, murder, vagrancy and chess: this is the life of John Healy.

By Imogen Ashfield / Spinebreakers Crew

It’s a tale that will surprise, open your eyes to a different side of a city, make you more observant and deeply move you. Thank goodness Healy’s work is no longer lost in the literary world.

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