With International Women’s Day approaching, for this month's Book Club, we are turning to literature from a perspective in which women are not a secondary element of the narrative. This list brings...
Three decades ago, Ewan McGregor's Mark Renton decided to ‘choose life’, and cinema will never be able to thank him enough. The odyssey of this young Scotsman, whose only ambition was to sink...
People say that writing a big, fat novel is hard. As a person who is currently writing a big, fat novel - I tend to agree. However, as writer Junot Díaz once observed, the novel can take a lot of...
I’m at that age when big anniversaries happen more and more frequently. The age at which you start to sigh a little when you’re getting up off the couch (and should get up more frequently,...
Mark Lorch, University of Hull; Alina Patelli, Aston University; Ana M Queirós, Plymouth Marine Laboratory; Anna Bedenk-Smith, University of Lincoln; Benjamin Curtis, Nottingham Trent University;...
Faith is always on shaky ground. You might say that back in the good (or bad) old days, faith had more muscle. You could get burned at the stake for questioning your faith - or at least be run out of...
It is a truth universally acknowledged that this quote from Jane Austen is one of the most famous and quoted in literature. This opening line of Pride and Prejudice sets the tone for the novel and...
The truth is, I wasn’t ready to like Down Cemetery Road. That’s because I am always wary of lightning when it attempts to strike twice. We already have a hit and a treasure in Slow Horses, which...
Time is strange - startlingly real to the human body, and not real at all if you’re trying to reconcile the theory of relativity with quantum mechanics. Twenty five years have passed since Mark...
Even in sepia Robert Redford’s eyes are Pacific blue. Californian azure. The truth and the lie. He’s the Santa Monica pretty boy no one wanted for Sundance; that’s no cinematic legend playing...
