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Stanley Greaves is without question one of the Caribbean’s most distinguished artists and this critical monograph is both a long overdue investigation and appreciation of his work and an important contribution to the still small body of Caribbean writing about art

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I heard their voices last night

The Tale of Walter the Pencil Man Juris Kronbergs and book reviewsIan McMillan and Tony Husband have worked together for many years, most recently on the comedy book Daft Yorkshire Fairy Tales (Dalesman, 2012; ISBN 9781855683105). Their latest collaboration tells the more sombre story in six line rhyming stanzas of a young lad from a Yorkshire pit village who finds himself caught up in the horrors of the First World War. Surrounded by terrible slaughter, Walter records the things he sees around him with only a