Money was already tight for UK families living on a low income before the COVID-19 pandemic, but national lockdowns made life much harder.Telling the stories of these families, this book exposes the ways that pre-existing inequalities, insecurities and hardships were amplified during the pandemic for families who were already in poverty before COVID-19, as well as those pushed into poverty by the economic fallout it created.Drawing on the Covid Realities research programme,...

In the aftermath of Gallipoli and in the shadow of the enduring war in Europe, Reverend David Benton preaches opposition to the war – and fights against conscription in the small town of Geradgery. It’s a dangerous position to take.David Mathews, in Australian Book Review, wrote of the novel: ‘because he concentrates on an aspect \[of the war\] which hitherto has not been fully explored, and sustains the work with deft prose, Page has succeeded in producing a nov...