Metro, September 2022 After the spectacular success of Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell returns to the 16th century for another atmospheric tale of historical women kicking against social and sexual constructs. This time we’re dropped into the […]
Metro, August 2022 Rob McEIhenney and Ryan Reynolds stand in the centre circle of Wrexham’s Racecourse Ground. It’s a pitch they will unexpectedly have to spend £300,000 to repair and replace, surrounded by a stadium […]
Metro, August 2022 Set in the years leading up to Hollywood’s reckoning with sexism, harassment and abuse that came with 2017’s #MeToo, the moment Isabel Kaplan’s young protagonist becomes the assistant to a young studio […]
An erudite Italian memoir, a suspenseful Chornobyl-set thriller, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s moving essay about the death of her father. The Observer, September 2022 Dandelions Thea Lenarduzzi Fitzcarraldo Editions, £12.99, pp288 This eloquent combination of family […]