Libraries gave us power – Manic Street Preachers So far in this occasional series I’ve talked about how George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four …
The cars on the expressway look like toys and the only things above you are clouds and the planes taking off from …
From viewing the cover of Hurma you might not expect a darkly comic sex romp. You might make some guesses as to the …
We meet in town, in one of the pubs. Way back when, before gastropubs and chains, before pubs got remodelled to look …
Remember when I said recently that Transit was going to be my favourite book of the year? Here we are a little …
The DisGRACEfully Delicious Grace Jones is a natural phenomenon. How can such a force of nature be contained and distilled within the …
Grace Jones, Kate Bush, Deborah Harry, Madonna, Patti Smith, Annie Lennox. Undeniably all iconic musicians, yet before any talk of their craft, …
A review of Slave by Mende Nazer, written for Anti-Slavery Day in 2015. Sometimes I think for all the advancements of the …
A recent interview with thespian Matt Damon created more of a stir than is usually expected of these opening weekend chitchats – or …
I highlighted many sentences for this The Wisdom of No Escape review and you will too, when you go and read it, …
Before reading this Sane New World review, imagine that your mind is like a computer, and you open a window, then another …
