A S H Smyth

ASH Smyth is a freelance writer and reviewer (and former singer, soldier, school teacher, and bricky's labourer). He now lives in the Falkland Islands.

As the winner of the International Booker Prize is due to be announced today, ASH Smyth talks to poet, translator and judge on this year’s panel, George Szirtes

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Confessions of a bibliomaniac in the South Atlantic

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The George Formby Society attempts a ukulele world record, online

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From the submarine service to the world’s southernmost sub-post office, A S H Smyth interviews Sally Owen, a Falklands-based dentist who also helps to conserve the historic sites of Antarctica

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The Falkland Islands bids farewell to the RSS James Clark Ross and a Marylebone gallery hosts a virtual exhibition of Antarctic photographs

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ASH Smyth sings choral evensong for Candlemas, in Stanley cathedral

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In the final instalment of his Falklands quarantine diary, ASH Smyth gears up for the outside world after two weeks at home

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ASH Smyth gives a poetically bad speech at the Galle Literary Festival for the Caledonian Society of Sri Lanka

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From South Asia to the South Atlantic, in the time of Covid

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Former bookseller A.S.H. Smyth enjoys a bestselling bookshop owner’s taxonomy of bookshop people

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