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Pauline Black: A 2-Tone Story

A new documentary paints a fascinating portrait of the pioneering singer and author Pauline Black who, with the band The Selecter, was central in the late 1970s to the rise of 2-tone music and the revival of Ska. As the film is released she talks with Gabriel Gbadamosi about her career and bearing witness to historical and contemporary British racial politics.

WritersMosaic Profiled Writers
"I am a gifted shapeshifter, able to adjust myself to the rules of almost any environment. But I’m tired of shrinking. Belonging is a fairy tale. I wish to be with the unruly people."

My Hit List

Ellie Dobing’s cultural highlights

The audio producer on Brecon Beacons beckons, platters of gyros, an English Amazon, a flautist father, and a shapeshifting boy

What We Leave We Carry

Gabriela Raluco Andriesei

Gabriela Raluco Andriesi recalls leaving Romania, finding the freedom to be with her partner in Scotland and joining the police force

Guest Edition

A strategic retreat

Edited by Colin Grant

Six writers recall the experience of the first WritersMosaic retreat at Villa Lugara, in partnership with the Hawthornden Foundation

The Outrun

The film based on Amy Liptrot's memoir of recovery from alcoholism

Mr Loverman 

Elderly closeted Caribbean men rekindle their love affair

Close Up

The Ferry

Fragments of a Dream. The first of our Fiction series

Writing Parables Into Reality

Octavia E. Butler’s Parable Duology

Spotlight

The Apprentice

Prior to the US election, a film depicting rise of the 45th President of the US infuriated Donald Trump. Isabelle Dupuy reviewed The Apprentice and was later joined by American expats in the UK, giving their verdict on the biopic that tells the foundation story of Donald Trump along with his mentor, the infamous lawyer Roy M. Cohn.

InSight

Alford Dalrymple Gardner: remembered

Alford Dalrymple Gardner, a Windrush generation pioneer, died last week. In 2023, he visited the Edinburgh International Book Festival to discuss his memoir, Finding Home, with his son, Howard, Lisa Williams and Colin Grant. This film is courtesy of the EIBF archive.

Walk good: in Britain’s colonial countryside

WritersMosaic explores questions of migrants' and their descendants' relationship with the British countryside.

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