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Nebraska: Film Review
Nebraska. A CGI and colour free zone it relies instead on character relationships, and real life chances taken and lost.
My Dad’s Gap Year at Park Theatre
‘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 ...
Gecko: The Wedding at the Barbican – a physical feast
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 ...
Book Review: Bottled Goods, by Sophie van Llewyn
So my big question when starting the book was “How is this going to work?”
Jamali Maddix – Review
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 ...
Book Review: Table Manners, by Susmita Bhattacharya
Food is a byword for class, loss, happiness, and a minefield of potential gaffes for the culturally uninitiated.
A Christmas Carol at the Print Room
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.
Book Review: The Gods Will Hear Us Eventually, by Jinny Koh
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 ...
Book Review: The Cartography of Others, by Catherine McNamara
The backdrops are real and effectively drawn but it is in charting the contours of the human condition that McNamara succeeds with skilful interpretation.
Book Review: Live Show, Drinks Included, by Vicky Grut
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 ...
Book Review: We Were Strangers, an anthology of new stories inspired by Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures, edited by Richard Hirst
All this misjudged levity is really an attempt to sublimate the subject matter of the record that inspired this collection: depression.
Book Review: Conradology
The author who would become known internationally as Joseph Conrad was born in 1857 in northern Ukraine, a region home to a significant community of ethnic Poles.
Book Review: Writing the “literary life”: The Pleasures of Queuing, by Erik Martiny
Just a little over halfway through Erik Martiny’s debut novel, the protagonist-narrator, Olaf Montcocq, deep in the throes of adolescent literary self-emergence, explains how he welcomed the prospect of being ...
Book Review: Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World, by Lyndall Gordon
In this book Gordon takes five women writers who battled against the social norms and takes us behind the characters they created
Book Review: We Are The End, by Gonzalo C. Garcia
What Garcia offers is an unwaveringly bleak satire on Generation Y, capturing the slow souring of that age as its unstoppable idealism comes up against the unbudgeable drudgery that is ...
Book Review: Hollow Shores, by Gary Budden
All the stories are of our era, this decade – social media, Amazon, portfolio purchase of residential apartments, extortionate rents, franchise coffee outlets, Sports Direct, Saint George’s Cross flags, parakeets ...
Poetry Review: Meat Songs by Jack Nicholls and Pisanki by Zosia Kuczyńska
These poems and prose poems are not simply love letters to loyal companions; instead the reader is presented with Blakeian explorations into perspectives: the points of view of animals, their ...
Book Review: We That Are Young, by Preti Taneja
We that are young, which recently won the Desmond Elliott Prize for New Fiction, is a retelling of the King Lear story set in India.
The Epic Poetry of B-Movies: A Review of Aaron Poochigian’s Mr. Either/Or
Meet you. You are the hero of Mr. Either/Or, a story told in second person, which creates the feel of a choose-your-own-adventure novel.
Book Review: Every Fox Is a Rabid Fox, by Harry Gallon
Our narrator, Robert, is a killer. An unintentional killer at that, but still a killer.