PETER JAMES ON HOW TO THRILL… REALISTICALLY
Copy: The National 25/10/11 >>I’ll be honest, airport thrillers are not the books I usually turn to. But I’d heard lots of good reports about Peter James, and in the week when there was so […]
Ben East
REVIEW: MOHAMMED HANIF
Copy: The Observer 24/10/11 >>Some of you may have seen the interview I did with Mohammed for The National. There’s a link here, if not. And off the back of that, here’s a nice big […]
REVIEW: GOOD @ ROYAL EXCHANGE
Copy: The Stage, 18/10/2011 >>Nice to see the Royal Exchange in Manchester beginning to try out new directors rather than sticking with the tried and trusted. Polly Findlay says in the programme notes that CP […]
BEASTIE BOYS FOR HALL OF FAME
The Booker eh? So yesterday. The next ridiculous prize to get het up about is the Rock ‘N’ Roll Hall Of Fame. Still, like Julian Barnes’ Booker win, there’s actually an act on the shortlist […]
THE MAN WHO CHANGED MUSIC?
As a former editor of MP3 Magazine (yes, it did exist) it felt right to muse on Steve Jobs’ death in The National. If the iPod had come out a year earlier, perhaps we might […]