BY ANTONIA FILMER Madhav Nalapat is no stranger to the English-speaking world and has been a contributor to Country Squire Magazine. In the Manipal University professor’s latest book, “75 Years of Indian Foreign Policy”, is found a concise yet comprehensive review of India’s past, present and future bilateral relations and multipolar ambitions since Independence in 1947. Nalapat has from the 1980s considered India to be … Continue reading Journey of a Nation
BY IAN COGHILL Back in August I failed to notice that Steve Carver had written a lengthy attack on my book Moorland Matters, using Country Squire Magazine’s ‘right to reply’. He started with a complaint that the oft repeated claim that the UK holds 75% of the world’s heather moorland is incorrect and that saying that there is less heather moorland in the world than … Continue reading Moorland Does Matter
BY DR CHRIS BLAZINA In Oct 2021, I found myself on a train leaving London bound for the northern part of England. On days when I am not travelling by train, plane, or automobile, I live in the Southwestern part of the United States. The area where the mythology of ‘the wild west’ and cowboys sprang from in American lore. While the high desert mountain … Continue reading One Unwavering Friend
The Squires interview one of our popular guest writers and contributors, author Gary C. McGhee, about his debut Sci-Fi novel ANDROMONO. What’s your background as a writer? I have had short stories published and won a literary Prize. I also wrote a novel which was well-received, but I decided to learn how to write screenplays for TV and Film as my natural writing style is … Continue reading Andromono: The Gary McGhee Interview
BY ANDREW MOODY Journalist and photographer, based in Tokyo, Sam White of the Spectator, Quillette and this magazine is ambivalent about Twitter: “After all, what kind of way to communicate are skeletal 280 character statements, stark of nuance, caveat or context?” In his new book I Wish I Hadn’t Written This: An Archive of Being Too Online in the Culture Wars 2016-2019, the eminently sensible … Continue reading Wonderful Wit of White
Robert Adam’s new novel ‘On the Green Hill of Tara’ explores the beginning of Ireland’s formal relationship with the EEC. The backdrop to Ireland’s final accession application on 30 June 1970 was the second year of the Northern Ireland Troubles and in May of that year, the ‘Dublin Arms Crisis.’ This was the political scandal when members of Jack Lynch’s cabinet, no less, were caught … Continue reading On the Green Hill of Tara
