JOSIE Long is stepping up. The material she is touring with now is political, she's speaking out against the cuts and talking about her activism. She started out apologising for it to the audience in the Nook Cafe at...
My eldest son said I should read it, my other half said I should read it, Steven Spielberg seemed to be suggesting I should read it, so I read Warhorse. It's all right you know. It's a ripping yarn...
NOT everyone could have got away with writing something like Stewart Lee's book How I Escaped My Certain Fate. It's an interesting commentary on a comedian getting his mojo back after a period of career turmoil. It takes us from...
This is the second book by David Mitchell that I have read and loved, the first being Cloud Atlas. Black Swan Green is a coming of age story set in an English community, halfway between town and countryside, at...
ON FRIDAY night Debbie Harry was going to have to work hard to impress me.
Since MarilynMonroe each decade has thrown up its iconic blondes: Twiggy in the Sixties, Madonna in the Eighties, Britney Spears in the Nineties. The Seventies...
