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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Vision, August 2017 In a city full of iconic buildings, it takes something special to stand out. Designs for Dubai’s superstructures have continually pushed the boundaries, from the sail-like structure of Burj Al Arab right […]