Waltzing past a bookshop window, anything with ‘Shakespeare’ on the cover is guaranteed to keep you foxtrotting elsewhere. As Bill Bryson concisely put it, the wealth of written material available on Shakespeare is enormous. You […]
Books: A Working Theory Of Love by Scott Hutchins
A Working Theory Of Love doesn’t shy away from the big questions of life. Confronting love, life and everything in between, Hutchins pursues the elusive question of what makes us human in his […]
Books: My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
Orhan Pamuk’s My Name Is Red is one of the more complicated books I’ve ever read. It contains fifty-nine chapters, focusing mainly on twelve narrative voices (as if one wasn’t enough) and concentration is […]
Books: Across A Bridge Of Dreams by Lesley Downer
Across a Bridge of Dreams is the compelling journey of forbidden love in turbulent nineteenth century Japan. The novel is set in the aftermath of civil war during a period of fast industrial progression. Despite […]
The Cookbook Review: Kitchen Heaven by Gordon Ramsay
I would love to be a good cook. I watch MasterChef and Great British Bake Off aspiring to create something incredible, but left to my own devices some slightly questionable concoctions appear in the kitchen. […]
The Cookbook Review: Jamie’s Italy
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the last decade you probably own a Jamie Oliver cookbook. Or at the very least you’ve used his Essex catchphrases while sprucing up your beans […]
Books: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Nick and Amy are the new Martha and George from Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf; a toxic, ruthless couple who make up Gone Girl’s story of a missing wife and a marriage turned sour. The […]
Books: Book of the Film: Life of Pi by Yann Martel
There are many ways to look at Life of Pi. The novel can be read as a magical realist fable, as a high concept adventure story, or as an allegory about faith, nature and […]