Category: Books
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NEWS: The Roald Dahl Story Company Announce Series of New Theatre Productions
The news follows the confirmation of a musical production of The Witches is set to open at the National Theatre later this year. The Roald Dahl Story Company have announced three new stage productions of the author’s work, which have been created and developed by the Roald Dahl Story Company’s in-house theatre division. The company’s […]
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REVIEW: So Close by Sylvia Day
The first book in the new series by the author is filled with tantalising secrets and interesting family dynamics – but can get a little bit lost in detail. Having read and loved Day’s Crossfire series, her latest one is darker and more intense in terms of the plot, which has plenty of twists and […]
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Review Round Up: Hamnet, Royal Shakespeare Company, Swan Theatre
We take a look at what is being said about Lolita Chakrabarti’s staging of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel. The Guardian: *** “We end with Hamlet – Shakespeare’s homage to Hamnet – and it all stays as sweeping and sentimental as a Hollywood film but hooks us in nonetheless, strongly performed across the board, with a simple, beguiling […]
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REVIEW: Screenage: How TV shaped Our Reality by Fenton Bailey
This lively and passionate book explores the importance of television, in particular reality tv, in bringing forward stories of marginalised queer communities. In this gradually engrossing memoir, Fenton Bailey really delves deep and with much insight into the way in which television really has developed to celebrate the stories from marginalised queer communities. Working alongside […]
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REVIEW: Queens of Themiscyra by Hannah Lynn
This is a powerful re-telling of the Queens of the Amazons, that balances the fierceness and independence of the women with the love and respect they have for each other perfectly. Bold, detailed and compelling to read from start to finish, Hannah Lynn’s novel tell the story Hippolyte and her sister Penthesilea are leaders of […]
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NEWS: Royal Historian Tracy Borman to Embark on First Theatre Tour
The debut tour is set to begin in Stafford at the Gatehouse Theatre on the 17th April and conclude at Bishops Stortford at South Mill Arts on the 25th May. Titled How To Be A Good Monarch – 1000 Years of Kings & Queens, the acclaimed historian and author’s first theatre tour will see her […]
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REVIEW: Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries
This book reveals a man and actor who was filled with passion for theatre – but also someone who would not hold back on what he thought of people. Of all the actors who have passed away over the years, Alan Rickman’s was (and still is) was one that really pained me. I never met […]
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Review Round Up: Spare by Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
We take a look at what is being said about this much hyped book…. The Guardian: “Spare is by turns compassion-inducing, frustrating, oddly compelling and absurd. Harry is myopic as he sits at the centre of his truth, simultaneously loathing and locked into the tropes of tabloid storytelling, the style of which his ghostwritten autobiography […]
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Review Round Up: The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis
We take a look at what critics have been saying about the latest book from Bret Easton Ellis. The Guardian: “As the book and its characters move towards a shattering state of “exalted understanding”, we realise the precision and subtlety of its metatextual structure. The concluding violence is both climax and origination.” The Observer: “A […]
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Love London Love Culture’s Favourite Books of 2022
Emma Clarendon selects some of her favourite reads of 2022…. Pandora by Susan Stokes-Chapman: what intrigued me about this novel is the fact it was the re-imagining of a Greek myth, set in Georgian London. Now while it was initially a bit of a slow-burner, it soon developed into something that was compelling to read. […]