The National, February 2015 It’s a wonderful moment in a novel packed with memorable scenes. Romola, widowed and abstaining from meat and fish in keeping with her Hindu custom, has swapped India for suburban Californian […]
The National, February 2015 It’s January 2007, and Zarqa Nawaz’s new sitcom Little Mosque on the Prairie, set around a Muslim community in North America, has just become a huge hit in Canada. But there’s […]
The National, January 2015 FICTION The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro (March) To say that a new Ishiguro book is eagerly awaited is an understatement. The multi-award-winning author of The Remains of the Day hasn’t […]
The Observer, February 2015 It has all the hallmarks of a classic haunted house novel. A mother and her young daughter arrive at a dwelling by a swollen river in the pouring rain. The house […]
The Observer, January 2015 In the first few days of 2015, the CEO of Samsung promised that the Internet of Things – where everything is connected to the internet – was coming. That there really […]