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The debut fictional novel of Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing topped the New York Times Fiction Best Sellers List of 2019, and since its release has received mixed feedback among its readers. The book tells the story of a young girl Kya, known locally as the ‘Marsh Girl’. Abandoned by her mother, her siblings... Continue Reading →
Neil Gaiman has had a good year when it comes to book adaptations. A great year in fact. Not only did the second season of American Gods air but Good Omens, a television series based on the cult classic Gaiman wrote with the late, great Terry Pratchett, also made its debut and took the world... Continue Reading →
October sees the arrival of Mental Health Awareness Week and, with one in four of us in the UK now living with a mental health condition*, there's no better time to raise awareness and eliminate the stigma surrounding mental illness. Step forward Scarlett Curtis. Following the success of Feminists Don't Wear Pink (and other lies),... Continue Reading →
To say Rachel is having a bad time of late would be an understatement. Just six weeks after the death of her father she’s jilted at the altar on her wedding day, and as a result is forced to move back to the family home in Oxford with her mother, Eleanor, a renowned artist. The... Continue Reading →
Written by Sharon Kernot, The Art of Taxidermy tells the story of a young girl named Lottie. The daughter of German migrants who suffered terribly during the war, Lottie is an outcast at school, with no friends other than her classmate Jeremy, a fellow outsider. Following the death of her mother, Lottie develops a fascination... Continue Reading →
The latest novel by Stacey Lee, The Downstairs Girl is set in Atlanta in 1890. Jo is a seventeen-year-old Chinese American girl living with her guardian Old Gin in an abandoned abolitionists’ hideaway beneath a print shop. When Jo loses her job in a hat shop, she’s forced to work for her previous employer, for... Continue Reading →
Today it's been announced that writer Margaret Atwood will celebration the publication of The Testaments, her highly anticipated sequel to her seminal work, The Handmaid’s Tale, with a live global cinema event followed by a UK tour. Fane Productions presents Margaret Atwood live on stage and in cinemas on Tuesday, September 10th in celebration of the global... Continue Reading →
January may have been the longest month ever but finally February is here, and with it comes a whole host of new shows to see. Here are a few of the theatre productions, events and books I’ll be blogging about this month. Theatre Fasten your seatbelts...! One of the hottest tickets of the year, the... Continue Reading →
Based on the remarkable true story of Holocaust survivor Lale Solokov, The Tattooist of Auschwitz is compelling tale of hope, love and survival. Heather Morris’s debut novel, one of the bestsellers of 2018, is based on years of conversations she had with Lale prior to his death in 2006. A Slovakian Jew, Lale was transported... Continue Reading →
