The Room by Jonas Karlsson
The Observer, January 2015 New year, same old office politics – a world in which missed tea runs, excessive time on Facebook or cigarette breaks somehow take on as much significance as, well, any actual […]
BOOKS
Simply English by Simon Heffer
The Observer, May 2014 If you are of the opinion that the newspaper headline “the economy shrank steeper than expected” isn’t just grammatically incorrect but, as Simon Heffer shrieks, a positively “barbaric” crime against language, […]
Gaiutra Bahadur’s coolie odyssey
The National, May 2014 The year was 1903 and a Brahmin woman set sail from Kolkata for a new life in the Caribbean. It wasn’t as exotic as it now sounds. Those on board suffered […]
The Spy With 29 Names by Jason Webster
The Observer, May 2014 At the end of this absorbing portrayal of Juan Pujol – the Catalan second world war double agent who was so good he won both the iron cross and an MBE – Jason […]
Curious by Ian Leslie
The Observer, May 2014 It’s the paradox of our times. The internet offers us deeper and quicker access to more knowledge than ever before, but there is more and more evidence that this vast, always-on archive is […]