David Nicholls looks back at One Day
Copy: The National 26/02/12 >> For a while last year it seemed like everyone was reading David Nicholls’ One Day, the wonderful tale of two star-crossed university lovers who we happen across every year, on […]
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WILL OSCAR SUCCESS FOR THE ARTIST CHANGE FILM?
Copy: Vision, 24/02/12 >> If The Artist does win Best Picture on Sunday at the Academy Awards, it will complete a remarkable rise for a film I first wrote about last June. Back then, the […]
Ruth Padel on why we’re all migrants
Copy: The National 20/02/12 >> My very favourite book of 2012 so far is Ruth Padel’s The Mara Crossing. Even the cover is gorgeous. It’s a really lovely series of reflections on migration, be that […]
REVIEW: THE REVELATIONS BY ALEX PRESTON
Copy: Metro 16/02/12 >> Once again, I can’t post a link to Metro’s book reviews because for some reason they don’t publish them online. But here’s my review of Alex Preston’s second novel which, despite […]
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE TRADITIONAL BIOPIC?
Copy: The National 23/02/12 >> I seem to have been writing about biopics a lot recently; both covering news that Elton John is planning to be the executive producer on a jukebox musical of his […]