Michael Kelly

A retired Psychologist enjoying a contemplative moment on a beautiful spring morning is confronted with memories of past cases of the many clients he had treated throughout his years of practice. To occupy the obvious spare time he has on his hands now, he evaluates the worth of writing a book offering its readers an insight into the lives of everyday people who, in many instances are inflicted with life turns not necessarily induced deliberately....

For decades, aesthetics has been subjected to a variety of critiques, often concerning its treatment of beauty or the autonomy of art. Collectively, these complaints have generated an anti-aesthetic stance prevalent in the contemporary art world. Yet if we examine the motivations for these critiques, Michael Kelly argues, we find theorists and artists hungering for a new kind of aesthetics, one better calibrated to contemporary art and its moral and...

★ Mystery Magazine's annual Sherlock Holmes issue ★

A double Issue filled with Pastiches, Parodies and Halloween thrills! Includes twice as many original stories as our regular monthly issues, and two You-Solve-It mysteries.

Featuring:

"The Case Of The Teller Of Tales" by Martin Rosenstock: Herman Starkey, famous author, has been murdered. Watson looked up to him. Did Starkey

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The tip of the iceberg.

Although it’s hard to beat the nostalgic crunch of a head of lettuce, most of us have come to expect much more from our salads than crunch. Today, a top notch salad contains many different colours, shapes, sizes, textures and flavours. As well as lettuces, it may also include the leaves of Arugula, Radicchio, Spinach, Cress, Mustards and Herb.

Many people have an aversion to beetroot because the only way they have ever tasted it is boiled and drowned in vinegar! If this is your experience, it deserves a second chance as it is a fine root crop. Beetroot is easy to grow, can be eaten all year round as it stores well, is incredibly good for you, and has multiple uses. You can boil it, bake it, grate it into salads, chutneys, wine, cakes.

Growing some broccoli in the glass house.

Kicking off the season with growing broad beans.

Once a vegetable grown to feed cattle, but now a staple ingredient for juicers everywhere, Kale is the fifth vegetable to feature in this series. This highly nutritious vegetable thrives in both the raised bed and container - despite a pigeon attack that prompts Michael Kelly to cover each of the three varieties sown.

All about chard. The nutritional powerhouse. How chard can it be?