This month at Five Books For, I've been exploring historical fiction and I'm so excited to share here one of my favourite books of all time and the absolutely brilliant adaptation of it which I hope...
Czech author and illustrator Anna Rajmon, whose book Elis: Irish Call Girl has been reviewed for Global Comment by me this month, was gracious enough to grant me some of her time to discuss the...
In Elis: Irish Call Girl, Czech author and illustrator Anna Rajmon tells her story of working in the Irish sex trade. Her purpose in doing so is to warn any young women thinking of entering this...
When you've lived abroad for a long time, there are lots of things you miss about home. Mostly your family, I find, although food seems to have a special power to make me feel a wistful nostalgia for...
I moved to Seville back in 2020 after falling in love with it (and my husband) on an earlier trip. It's a beautiful city with loads of great things to do and see and with some of the best food you...
Every Monday on Global Comment, we share Something Special you don't want to miss. To fit with the six core pillars of the magazine, these will alternate between the themes of watch / listen / read /...
This month over at Five Books For, we're discussing gothic-ish classics, given that it's October. I know lots of us go in for reading or watching something spooky around this time of year in honour...
There's something profoundly comforting about a dollop of mushy peas squeezed onto the plate next to your pie, or in a Styrofoam pot with your chippy tea. Often dismissed by food snobs as some kind...
I've nearly always got a podcast playing in the background, and a subscription list huge enough to be able pick different podcasts for different moods. Most people do not listen to podcasts that...
Call me a snob, but I don’t think people should be commenting on the style in which the French host their Olympics if they don’t know who Joan of Arc was, or, for that matter, what kind of songs...
