Cliveden Literary Festival 2021
Returning for the fourth year, the prestigious Cliveden Literary Festival once again welcomes guests to…
Browsing: The Culturist
Sea Change
Alix Nathan’s The Warlow Experiment became a Sunday Times book of the year and, like…
The Midnight Bell
Matthew Bourne knows how to tell a story – a story with his own unique…
The Key Man
This book tells a modern version of an old, old story. A confident, clever articulate…
Akram Khan’s Creature at Sadler’s Wells
Finally, after two postponements due to Covid, Akram Khan’s Creature had its world premiere last…
Camp Siegfried at The Old Vic
Bess Wohl’s new play at the Old Vic is essentially a coming-of-age love story. It…
No Honour
Recently I caught up with the BBC4 series on Hemingway, which included a particularly arresting…
The Passenger
The publication of yet another book, even a short novel such as The Passenger, in…
Midnight in Cairo
For those of us who associate Arab culture with the authoritarianism and religious extremism so…
Vaseem Khan Double Bill
Midnight at Malabar House begins a fascinating crime series set in a turbulent period in…
Alexandria: The Quest for the Lost City
This wonderfully researched and beautifully written book tells the extraordinary story of Charles Masson. Full…
The Killing Kind
The Killing Kind is one of the most exciting thrillers to grace my shelves recently.…