First Things Thomas Erikson But it's the early 1960s

But it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute take a very unscientific view of equality

and a terrible warning is found painted on the wall

they displaced traditions that were already ancient when Vasco Da Gama first arrived in India

and unalterable - gender

punctuated by standout flavours like hot honey browned butter

First Things Thomas Erikson But it's the early 1960sFirst memory. First going hitchhiking. First seeing my father angry. First shotgun. First poem. In First Things, Harry Ricketts chronicles his early life through the lens of firsts : those moments that can hold their detail and potency across a lifetime. Set mostly in Hong Kong and Oxford, these bright fragments include the places, people, writers, encounters and obsessions that have shaped Ricketts world, from his first friends and rivals to his