Author: Helen Carter

The literary loop

It’s a view that is widely held: printed books are doomed and ebooks and self publishing are the only way forward. If you’re out of London well gosh, poor you, you’re in the provinces. You might as well as be on Mars. This...

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Twelfth Night at The Lowry

It begins with the iconic soliloquy “If music be the food of love, play on.” The famous passage from Twelfth Night is probably as well known as the “To Be or Not to Be” soliloquy from Hamlet, or the “When Shall...

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HOME

It’s clearly great news that Arts Council England has awarded £5.5 million to the HOME centre, a new hub for international contemporary art, film and theatre which will open the year after next. I, for one, cannot wait. The new...

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