The Observer, April 2015 Celebrity chefs sell us the dream of whipping up daily, home-cooked dinners using the freshest ingredients. It pricks our consciences just enough to steer clear of obviously processed food and slip […]
The National, April 2015 When Akhil Sharma celebrated his 10th birthday, he was uneasily settling into a new life in America. He’d been plucked by his parents from a frugal, late-1970s Delhi into a fairy-tale […]
The Observer, April 2015 There’s an enjoyable lineage to Biteback’s Provocations series, its collection of thinkpieces by contemporary figures on the issues of the day. It echoes the output of the 18th- and 19th-century pamphleteers, […]
The Observer, March 2015 Mark Ellen surveys the happy youngsters comfortably cavorting at Glastonbury, marvelling at Primal Scream beneath a harvest moon. “You bastards,” moans the music journalist and editor, recalling his nascent festival experiences […]
The Observer, March 2015 She has a happy job as a civil servant, has just moved into her first flat and is falling in love. Anna Lyndsey’s life is gloriously unremarkable. And then something odd […]