Book review – Under a Blood Red Sky

Sarah Clarke of The Torbay Bookshop reviews the latest releases.

I was really impressed with Kate Furnivall’s first novel, The Russian Concubine, and equally with her second, Under a Blood Red Sky. Anna and Sofia are two friends struggling to survive in a women’s labour camp in Siberia in 1933. Although their lives are

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From Picasso’s Summer of Love to Price’s Winter of Seduction

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The Brook Gallery, Budleigh Salterton, is showing a selection of Pablo Picasso’s work alongside that of Trevor Price, from December 6 to January 2.

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Harnessing the power of community workshops in Totnes

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A series of nine public workshops from the Tranistion Town Totnes team are squaring themselves up to engage the community in the development of an energy descent plan for Totnes and its environs for 2009 to 2030, which sounds like ‘a good thing’, even though we’re not sure what it is.

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Blogging tips from the PRSD – RSS rocks

RSS (or ‘Really Simple Syndication’) is a bit like email, allowing you to get a story from your favourite website sent straight to your computer as soon as it’s posted.

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Energy efficiency on display in Devon buildings

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Transparent local government with a green tinge, is how us here in the PRSD office are seeing the new energy certificates, which Devon County Council buildings (including schools) are going to display.

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Devon tree skills on show for National Tree Week

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Traditional wood craft skills were on show in a Woodland Craft and Activity Day at Decoy Country Park, Newton Abbot yesterday. There were demonstrations of traditional wood turning and broom-making, and you could build your own bird-box or customise your own walking stick, with wood sculptures up for grabs in the

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Artist interview – Ben Yates

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South Devon artist Ben Yates is most widely know through his photocubism work – 3D photographic mosaics. But he’s now looking behind the screen, so to speak, and using defunct computer components to create cities and… trophies for the Two Short Nights film festival, which kicks off on Friday, November 28,

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