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The latest news, reviews and features on theatre, books, travel, culture and life
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 →
The End of Magic offers its readers an intriguing premise. While many of us are no doubt familiar with books where seemingly normal people discover they possess magical powers (unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past twenty years and missed the Harry Potter phenomenon), this new fantasy novel, written by Mark Stay,... Continue Reading →
When ageing Hollywood superstar Evelyn Hugo offers little-known Vivant magazine reporter Monique Grant her one and only interview about her glamorous yet controversial life, no one can quite believe it, less Monique herself. After all, her life isn’t the easiest, she’s struggling in her working life and her marriage is breaking down. Accepting the job... Continue Reading →
