Five ways Top Gear will be different
The National, May 2016 With Jezza, The Hamster and Captain Slow signed up to Amazon Prime for a rival motoring programme, we look at five ways Top Gear will evolve: 1 The presenters are fresh and new There […]
Ben East
Top Gear 2: The Evans and LeBlanc Show
The National, May 2016 New Top Gear presenter Chris Evans is running down the list of cars he owns. “There are loads of things in my garage,” says the 50-year-old English radio and television producer and presenter. […]
Restoration by Alexander Larman
The Observer, May 2016 Alexander Larman says in his introduction to Restoration: The Year of the Great Fire that his first book, a biography of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, left him with a sense of unfinished business, that […]
A walk around the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair
The National, April 2016 Abu Dhabi International Book Fair returns on Wednesday for its 26th edition, with its usual mix of books, excited publishers, hopeful booksellers, international authors and industry experts. Run by the Abu […]
Mohammed Al Murr on Emirati literature
The National, April 2016 When Mohammed Al Murr started writing short stories, decades ago, the literary landscape of the UAE was dramatically different from what it is now. Most books were published by some form […]