Copy: The Observer, November 2012 >> Blame The Killing. As anticipation built for the first instalment of the third season, I’d just finished reviewing Thomas E Kennedy’s Falling Sideways for The Observer. It was impossible not to feel that in some way Soren Sveistrup’s...

Copy: The Observer, October 2012 >> On Friday, Writers Centre Norwich host an evening focusing on Salt Publishing. Alongside the Writers Centre itself, which was instrumental in the successful UNESCO City Of Literature bid for Norwich, Salt must surely be one of Norfolk’s literary...

Copy: The National, July and November 2012 >> It’s getting to that time in the calendar when lists are compiled for the best novels of the year. With some qualifications (most notably Alison Moore’s Booker nominated The Lighthouse), I’d actually recommend heading...

Copy: The National, November 2012 >> The common criticism of Orientalism is that it’s an embarrassing, demeaning colonialist view of “the east”, with all its exotic, romanticised connotations. Edward Said, whose books are widely regarded as the authority on such...

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Copy: The National, August 2012 >>I hadn’t been back to the Edinburgh Festival since the days of covering it for Metro. What had changed? Well, The Assembly Rooms now appears to have a Jamie Oliver restaurant on the ground floor, and the rest of the building has been completely...

Copy: Metro, summer 2012 My last post of a not very post-ful summer (sorry about that) mused on how £40 was far too much for Fulham Vs Norwich. It certainly was if you were a Norwich fan – it cost £8 per opposition goal. A week later, Norwich supporters goaded their QPR counterparts...

The announcement of the forthcoming season’s fixture list is always an great moment for football supporters, but for me the real excitement comes when the tickets for the first game actually go on sale. Ballots can be entered, plans can be made, the anticipation starts to build. After all,...