by Catherine Blanch | Dec 17, 2016 | Entertainment, Interviews, Musical Theatre, Theatre
by Catherine Blanch. Born Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien, Dusty Springfield was not only a musician, arranger, record producer and television presenter, but the blue-eyed sensual mezzo-soprano was one of the most successful British female performers of her...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 4, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Peter Holmes, Ben Caudell and Saul Wordsworth, with interjections from Rob Brydon, Lee Mack and David Mitchell (Faber) 2015, 339pp, RRP $27.99 Although not quite in the spirit of the TV show (which is huge in the UK but never caught on here in the same way), this...
by Lynette Washington | Nov 12, 2015 | Books, Reviews
David Mitchell (Hachette) 2015, 233pp, Hardback RRP $27.99 Fans of David Mitchell will be thrilled to know that Slade House occupies the same bizarre world as his other acclaimed novels The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas. In fact, characters, concepts and themes hark...
by Dave Bradley | Oct 31, 2014 | Books, Reviews
David Mitchell (Faber/Guardian) 2014, 326pp, RRP $39.99 Known for TV’s That Mitchell And Webb Look and Peep Show (with co-creator Robert Webb), as well as Would I Lie To You? and his endless appearances on QI, Mitchell’s pieces for the Observer are collected here in...
by Lynette Washington | Sep 20, 2014 | Books, Reviews
David Mitchell (Hachette) 2014, 595pp, RRP $29.99 Every now and then you read a book so ludicrously original, so incandescent with intelligence and written with such audacity that you are stunned into an awe-filled silence. That was what reading The Bone Clocks felt...
