Reviews
The decline of nature and the rise of nature books
Since 1970 UK wildlife has declined by an alarming 20%. Nearly 1 in 6 species are now threatened with extinction. While the state of nature has been a tale of decline, books about nature have seen the reverse in fortune. Where they used to occupy a single shelf within the Science & Nature section, in the thirty years we have ...
Band Meeting – with Gilbert Gabriel
This month we're talking with Gilbert Gabriel. A songwriter, film composer, producer and lecturer. He studied piano and clarinet at Dartington College of Arts and Goldsmiths before forming the British folk rock trio with Nick Laird-Clowes, The Dream Academy, whose 1985 single "Life in a Northern Town" was a global hit, peaking within the top ten of the charts in ...
Abrasive Trees announce the premiere of their latest work
Totnes-scene post-rock/post-punk band Abrasive Trees have announced the premiere of their latest work, ‘Mill Session’ – a short film featuring new songs, interview material and spellbinding visual art, all filmed within an ancient mill. The five-piece, which includes Matthew Rochford and Ben Roberts from Bella Union project Silver Moth worked with a team of local professionals and producer Pete Fletcher from the Isle of Lewis to produce the 20-minute video ...
Our Top 5 Books of the Year
Despite predictions of decline even their extinction, physical high street bookshops remain in good shape. People like bookshops and people like books. It was our belief in this that after working in bookselling for forty years between us, we finally got to fulfil our long-held dream by opening The East Gate Bookshop in Totnes on December 12th 2020. We think ...
Jo Beth Young & Serious Child – Review
The ‘Shadow Navigation Show’ enchanted the audience in the beautiful surroundings of St. Mary’s Church last week, marking the return of the beguiling of Jo Beth Young to Totnes for the first time in over four years (when she performed with the name ‘Rise’). This time she plays under her own name and has teamed up with the fascinating artist ...