Don’t you just hate it when you’ve spent hours of your life reading a whodunnit only to find that the author solves the crime by bringing on a total stranger at the end? Or the story is so convoluted – I’m thinking The Snowman...
Read MoreHere’s a sobering thought. In under 10 years, it is estimated that more than a million people in the UK will be living with dementia. But what is a life with dementia actually like? We regularly read stories from carers...
Read More“The world is a book, and those who don’t travel only read one page,” says Professor Kirke at the beginning of The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe. Fortunately for the audience surrounding the stage at the West...
Read MoreHenrik Ibsen’s The Master Builder, published in 1892, begins with the arrival of a young woman, Hilde Wangel, in Halvard Solness’s office. She claims to know the eponymous architect, although he doesn’t remember her. She...
Read More“Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.” So says Malcolm of the Thane of Cawdor in Macbeth. If only the same could be said of Great Britain abandoning its Empire. Somalia, Palestine, Sri Lanka, Burma,...
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