A Halloween Read: The Shadowing
This is a fascinating story set in a time when traveling from Bristol to Nottingham…
Browsing: The Culturist
ICYMI: ‘Nero: The Man Behind the Myth’ at the British Museum
Nero’s reputation as a murderous, matricidal despot has prevailed for almost 2,000 years. But was…
Cliveden Literary Festival 2021
Returning for the fourth year, the prestigious Cliveden Literary Festival once again welcomes guests to…
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…