The Band at Manchester Opera House
Metro, September 2017 From the moment the safety curtain emblazoned with Ceefax pages rises to the shiny sound of the 1990s Top Of The Pops theme tune, it’s clear which Take That No.1 best fits […]
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Fresh Complaint by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Observer, September 2017 In the perfectly paced, middle-aged, middle-class drama that completes Jeffrey Eugenides’s first collection of short stories, a famous physics professor “watches his life implode” after an ill-advised one-night stand with a […]
Munich by Robert Harris
The Observer, September 2017 It’s one of the defining – and in hindsight humiliating – images of the 20th century: Neville Chamberlain stepping off the plane from Munich in September 1938 clutching a paper signed […]
Kamila Shamsie on Booker-longlisted Home Fire
The National, September 2017 As openings to novels go, it doesn’t get more contemporary or urgent than the striking first pages of Kamila Shamsie’s new, Booker longlisted novel Home Fire. Isma is on her way […]
Game Of Thrones Season 7 cast interviews
The National, August 2017 For all the ice dragons breathing fire, throats bloodily cut or displays of royal cunning, it was left to a slightly weedy visionary to deliver the major twist in the Game of […]