Finding a deeper love for The Bee Gees
Copy: The National, May 2012 >> As an indie kid in the late 1980s and early 1990s, disco was something of a dirty word. All those terrible fancy dress nights with curly wigs and flares, […]
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Inspecting Gadgets in Geneva
Copy: Vision May 2012 >> A hands-free umbrella, or a teddy bear with wi-fi connectivity might sound like the work of a wacky inventor, but the International Exhibition of Inventions, held in Geneva every April, […]
Why Grant Holt should go to Euros, in 5 goals
Full disclosure, I’m a Norwich fan. But having had the pleasure of watching Grant Holt for three seasons now actually makes me more and more convinced that he could do a job for England this […]
Edgelands nominated for Ondaatje prize
It’s not the most high-profile of literary awards, but it must surely be the most esoteric. The Ondaatje Prize is awarded each year to the “book of the highest literary merit – fiction, non-fiction, poetry […]
A spring of Arab fiction
Copy: The National, Gulf Life, Vision, The Observer This spring I’ve been busy with the International Prize For Arabic Fiction – colloquially known as the Arabic Booker – for a number of publications. First I spoke […]