Sarah Clarke of The Torbay Bookshop reviews the latest releases.
The Greek myths have inspired many retellings through the centuries but may reach a whole new readership in Glyn Iliffe’s King of Ithaca. It is the first in a three part series based on the adventures of Odysseus and the characters from Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey and starts off with a young Odysseus travelling to Sparta to pay suit to Helen of Troy. Many adventures later he sails home to reclaim his homeland accompanied by his new wife Penelope. Plenty of action made it an enjoyable and at times exciting read and is sure to appeal to fans of Conn Iggulden and Valerio Massimo Manfredi.
King of Ithaca, Glyn Iliffe, Macmillan, £12.99, 9780230529236
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On Saturday Plymouth Arts Centre should get its free bus pass, it celebrates its 60th anniversary afterall. And how to enjoy such a pensionable landmark?
There will be an exhibition of ‘fragments of Plymouth’s past and present through archive material, film footage, radio broadcasts and stories’.
‘In its early years there were exhibitions by Gwen John, Ivor Kenny and Ted Williams, as well as famously offering Beryl Cook her first exhibition,’ says the press release, but Patrick Heron, Peter Blake and Paula Rego were well on their way to international acclaim by the time of their shows in the ’80s and ’90s.
The exhibition will also include a new commission, Reciting the City, by Mike Lawson-Smith – ‘a two-screen video installation that sets the stage for a latent dialogue between Plymouth’s citizens, prompted by film footage extracted from the South West Film and Television Archive’.
Also on show will be Jeremy Deller’s wall drawing The History of the World 1997-2004. An intricate mind map which traces the links between the Acid House scene of the late ‘80s and the traditional brass band.
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