Double Portrait, a book that I ghostwrote for the Story Terrace biography writing service was prominently featured in a Guardian article by Amelia Hill in December 2020. It reveals how the enforced separations caused by Covid-19 lockdowns have driven the demand… Continue Reading →
The new BBC/HBO series Industry is set in London in the offices of Pierpoint & Co. — ‘the world’s pre-eminent financial services institution’. Oddly, for a workplace drama, most of the real action in the pilot episode takes place not… Continue Reading →
John Mitchinson and Andy Miller of the Backlisted literary podcast are on a mission to give ‘new life to old books’. If they were living in the dystopian world of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 that passion would put them on… Continue Reading →
It is tempting to mix in a few drink-sodden clichés when talking about Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round (Druk), which I was lucky enough to see at the BFI London Film Festival 2020. This comedy-drama about four middle-aged Danish men experimenting… Continue Reading →
COVID-19 has laid waste to the cultural landscape in 2020, but at least we haven’t missed the opportunity to see President Donald Trump ‘starring’ in the new Britbox series of Spitting Image. The 45th US President and his multi-functional, tirelessly… Continue Reading →
For years I thought that the five-year diary (above, left) was my first attempt at keeping a daily record of my thoughts, activities and evolving taste in film, TV and books. It’s a handsome, leather-bound volume that lends itself to the… Continue Reading →
I can’t wait to see how a future series of Netflix drama The Crown deals with Prince Andrew’s recent appearance on Newsnight. I wonder which A-list actor they will cast as (C-list) royal the Duke of York – a man… Continue Reading →
I don’t own a copy of Italian for Dummies or the ambitiously titled Italian All-in-One For Dummies. If either of these books can fulfil the publisher’s claim of ‘Making Everything Easier’, then it might be time to take the plunge…. Continue Reading →
Desperate times call for ingenious measures – especially if you’re a writer who has gone out of fashion. That’s the premise of Can You Ever Forgive Me?, in which Melissa McCarthy gives a powerhouse performance as literary forger Lee Israel. In 1991… Continue Reading →
Director Yorgos Lanthimos’s bawdy, expletive-ridden historical romp, The Favourite, often feels as though it is veering off into Carry On film territory. Centring on the love triangle between Queen Anne (Olivia Colman), Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (Rachel Weisz), and… Continue Reading →
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