Metro, January 2020 When Robert Carlyle was smashing up bars as Begbie in Trainspotting 24 years ago, spitting psychopathic invective at anyone who’d listen, it became his career-defining role. So to find him pitching up […]
The National, January 2020 Jasbinder Bilan can remember the exact moment inspiration struck for her first children’s novel. “It came to me in one really clear image,” she explains from her home in Bath, England. […]
The National, January 2020 It was 2015 and Saud Alsanousi was finishing the follow-up to his novel, The Bamboo Stalk, which won him the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2013. The bestselling Kuwaiti author […]
The National, January 2020 When Tamino was 14, he found an antique guitar in the attic of his family’s home in Cairo. Something about the instrument intrigued him – as it should. It belonged to his […]
Metro, December 2019 Three stars There’s a desperately sad moment in Gypsy where Louise (Melissa James), most of her way through her transformation from shy youngster shunning the limelight to the burlesque queen “Gypsy Rose […]