The best thing about “Does My Bomb Look Big in This? is seeing how teenagers behave in their everyday lives. It reminds us how flawed they are, yet how wonderful ...
Constellations is a collection of raw, beautifully charged, wide-ranging essays about living in an imperfect body, specifically a female body in Ireland, where historically women have been denied their right ...
With over thirty contributions from as many writers, Common People shines a light on the huge diversity of people in the United Kingdom and celebrates this richness loudly.
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Our culture of relentless activity is driving us to exhaustion – how can we stop?
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Sparkes and Hilaire have divided in two the work of unearthing and voicing by location, with Sparkes taking North and Hilaire the South of London, demarcated by the river that ...
With the best use of its simple elements, the play (literally) takes us places, through visionary and poetic storytelling.
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In “The Choke” characters are trapped by circumstances, doomed to repeat the mistakes of previous generations, as they bid to break free from a cycle of poverty, addiction and violence. ...
In her collection of essays, At Home in the New World, Maria Terrone explores the world through the lens of an Italian-American New Yorker.
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A stylistically complex novel, Stubborn Archivist blends prose poetry and disjointed narratives, the result of which is a novel with a sense of urgency.
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Nebraska. A CGI and colour free zone it relies instead on character relationships, and real life chances taken and lost.
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Writing is a type of alchemy, of taking an idea and translating it to words on a page.
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‘My Dad’s Gap Year’ at its heart is about how love survives disappointment, failure and broken taboos but Tom Wright has wrapped it up in a fast-moving comedy and the ...
The Wedding is an exploration of what it means to become, and to be an adult in our society, with all the fun, challenges, misunderstandings, ties, and betrayals it brings ...
So my big question when starting the book was “How is this going to work?”
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Jamali Maddix is not quite thirty yet but after listening to him for an hour at the Hackney Empire on Saturday night, he struck me as a man who had ...
Food is a byword for class, loss, happiness, and a minefield of potential gaffes for the culturally uninitiated.
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Between the sloping floor and bazar feel of the lounge to the two hundred seat theatre with fading walls, it is a warm, intimate place for a one-man show. ...
When you expect The Gods Will Hear Us Eventually to become a whodunnit it morphs more into a mystery and almost becomes a ghost story, but don’t let me give ...
The backdrops are real and effectively drawn but it is in charting the contours of the human condition that McNamara succeeds with skilful interpretation.
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I cannot say, hand on heart, that every single story was for me, but I can say I was never bored, never tempted to put the book down and come ...
