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What’s New for the 20th of July: Lots of Elizabeth Bear including The Folded Sky; tomatoes; a Hobbit film; new jazz and archival reviews; Charles Vess ballads and sagas; and an offbeat Ellen Kushner adaptation

Posted on 20th July 2025 by Reynard

“Butterflies are not insects,” Captain John Sterling said soberly. They are self-propelled flowers.” — Robert A. Heinlein’s The Cat Who Walks Through Walls To celebrate the release of a new Elizabeth Bear White Space novel, we’re running Gary’s review of it … Continue reading →

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A Kinrowan Estate story: Our Cats

Posted on 1st June 2025 by Gus the Estate Head Gardener

While our Kinrowan Hall is justly famous for the music that keeps the old place resonating nicely, we’re also home to a fair number of our feline friends. While some of the cats just come and go (not unlike the notoriously peripatetic … Continue reading →

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What’s New for the 27th of April: Tim Pratt & Heather Shaw’s fiction and Flytrap zine; Tea with Jane Austen; a fine French fairy tale film; some new jazz and archival francophone music reviews; and the Stones!

Posted on 27th April 2025 by Reynard

But you know me — I’m an information magpie, always interested in shiny bits of intel. I’ve never gotten in trouble because of knowing too much. T.A. Pratt’s Blood Engines Welcome. I’m Gary, music editor and Archive diver. A query … Continue reading →

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A Kinrowan Estate story: A Most Beguiling Cookbook

Posted on 20th April 2025 by Gus the Estate Head Gardener

Dear Anna, I’m going to pitch a book for that culinary folklore seminar you’re teaching next Winter here for those visiting food writers, as I really think it’ll be a good addition to that endeavour. One of Several Annies, Iain’s … Continue reading →

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What’s New for the 13th of April: Anthony Bourdain in print and video; Calexico, Giant Sand and related music; new recordings of ragas, Nordic songs, and vocal jazz, ‘The Night They Drive Old Dixie Down’ performed by The Band

Posted on 13th April 2025 by Iain Nicholas Mackenzie

The night they drove old Dixie down And the bells were ringing The night they drove old Dixie down And the people were singing They went, “Na, na, la, na, na, la” The Band’s ‘The Night They Drove Old Dixie … Continue reading →

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What’s New for the 2nd of February: All about the Oz books, green man lore, and gargoyles; Baltic polyphony, East-West ambient psychedelia, and a grab bag of other music

Posted on 2nd February 2025 by Reynard

She who invented words, and yet does not speak; she who brings dreams and visions, yet does not sleep; she who swallows the storm, yet knows nothing of rain or wind. I speak for her; I am her own. ― … Continue reading →

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A Kinrowan Estate story: Knit One, Purl Two

Posted on 26th January 2025 by Diverse Voices

Knit one, purl two. Knit one, purl two. Oh, it’s you. Yes, of course, come on in. It’s good to see you again. What am I knitting? A sock. I haven’t tried knitting socks for nearly 40 years, so it’s … Continue reading →

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A Kinrowan Estate story: Fireplaces

Posted on 25th January 2025 by Gus the Estate Head Gardener

Let’s discuss fireplaces. Or more precisely why there’s only scattered open fireplaces left in all  of Kinrowan Hall these days, one in the Library, the Library and in the Pub and in the senior staff residences (RHIP). Why this is … Continue reading →

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What’s New for the 19th of January: Go Ahead, Be Pleasantly Surprised At What’s Here

Posted on 19th January 2025 by Reynard

The fox never found a better messenger than himself. — old English saying What’s that lovely piece of music I’ve playing in the Library? That’s ‘Toys, Not Ties’ by the Scottish sort of trad group Nightnoise.  I’m playing only that band this … Continue reading →

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A Kinrowan Estate story: Ancients and Venerables of Guild of St. Nicholas

Posted on 12th January 2025 by Reynard

So it was a long year. Looking forward to this one, though. All sorts of things I can stand seeing the back of, you can always hope, can’t you? You want another one of those, or do you want to … Continue reading →

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