Taylor Swift profile
The National, June 2015 It was surely the most interesting corporate tweet for quite some time. When Apple’s Eddy Cue – a senior vice-president at the largest publicly traded corporation in the world, no less […]
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David Letterman profile
The National, May 2015 It was a fitting end to a riotously funny, ridiculously entertaining era. When David Letterman brought 22 years of his famous Late Show to a close on Wednesday night, everyone from The Simpsons to all the […]
Gull by Glenn Patterson
The Observer, January 2016 In Glenn Patterson’s colourful novel about John DeLorean’s infamous, gull-winged sports car manufactured in Northern Ireland, the enigmatic entrepreneur-engineer dreams of seeing his futuristic creation in a movie. Of course, the DMC-12 would go on […]
Gratitude by Oliver Sacks
The Observer, December 2015 The New York Times called him “the poet laureate of medicine”, so when Oliver Sacks learned that his cancer was terminal, it was perhaps inevitable that the author of Awakenings should turn to writing to try to […]
The Speaker’s Wife by Quentin Letts
The Observer, November 2015 Journalist Quentin Letts’s first foray into fiction is an odd undertaking. One would expect a certain gleeful stereotyping of the iniquities of parliament from such a savage political sketch writer. The man […]