Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
The National, May 2017 Sometimes, a novel introduces a character so believable, so moving and so original that there is a feeling of real loss when you turn the final page. I reread the ending […]
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Uber Elevate: the business of flying cars soars in Dubai
Vision, May 2017 It has always been the stuff of speculative science fiction. In the metropolis of the future depicted in Blade Runner, The Fifth Element or even Back to the Future, trips around the […]
Laline Paull explains Bees follow-up The Ice
The National, May 2017 “I have been there and, believe me, I have been afraid.” This was how the first African-American Arctic explorer, Matthew Henson, described his expeditions to the North Pole in 1912. It […]
Beyond The Wall – Pink Floyd at the V&A
The Arts Society, May 2017 For a band who put the mind-altering mayhem of psychedelic music on the map, the entrance to Pink Floyd’s first international retrospective seems surprisingly literal. But the Victoria and Albert […]
House Of Names by Colm Tóibín
The National, May 2017 As opening lines go, “I have been acquainted with the smell of death”, is about as intriguing as it gets. But then, in his latest novel, Irish author Colm Tóibín is […]