Deadwater Fell Friday, Channel 4 Rating: White House Farm Wednesday, ITV Rating: Two new crime dramas this week, one fictional and one factual, and both involving the murder of small children, so that’s a nice start to the New Year. But our fascination with crime will likely make us take the plunge anyhow. Actually, the … Read more
By Gum, it’s quality stodge (but spare me the goat’s cheese!) By Tom Parker Bowles Event for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:01 GMT, 11 January 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 11 January 2020 The Gumstool Inn Calcot & Spa, Tetbury, Gloucs Rating: The road wears the mist like a sodden blanket, the headlights barely … Read more
From Rebecca Wait’s ‘outstanding’ Our Fathers to the evocative Low by Jeet Thayil and Agency by William Gibson, this week’s best new fiction By Simon Humphreys For Event Magazine and Anthony Gardner and Jeffrey Burke Published: 22:01 GMT, 11 January 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 11 January 2020 Our Fathers Rebecca Wait … Read more
Magic Goes Wrong starring Dave Hearn and Nancy Zamit at the Vaudeville Theatre is funny, but the show breaks no new ground By Robert Gore-Langton for Event Magazine Published: 22:01 GMT, 11 January 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 11 January 2020 Magic Goes Wrong Vaudeville Theatre, London … Read more
Stephen Hough is a genuine polymath who, among other gifts, talks and writes about music as insightfully as he plays it By David Mellor for Event Published: 22:01 GMT, 11 January 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 11 January 2020 Stephen Hough Wigmore Hall, London Rating: Historically, the list of great British pianists is a sadly … Read more
‘I was gutted when Madonna came along,’ confesses Eighties icon Kim Wilde. ‘It was awful – the worst time in my life. I just thought, “How am I ever going to compete with this?”’ This year, as Wilde turns 60, she will celebrate her own life in music with a greatest- hits tour and best-of … Read more
Timmy Mallett – DJ, artist, author and Eighties children’s broadcaster – was preparing to embark on the ancient pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain when a bulletproof government limousine arrived at his Berkshire home in the spring of 2018. He describes what followed in his highly entertaining and wildly odd new memoir, Utterly Brilliant! … Read more
CONTEMPORARY By Sara Lawrence for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 9 January 2020 | Updated: 00:52 GMT, 11 January 2020 SUCH A FUN AGE by Kiley Reid (Bloomsbury £12.99, 320 pp) I loved this extraordinarily deft debut, written with wisdom, kindness and sharp humour. Set in Pennsylvania, the book confronts issues of privilege, race … Read more
THRILLERS By Geoffrey Wansell for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 9 January 2020 | Updated: 00:47 GMT, 11 January 2020 THREE HOURS by Rosamund Lupton (Viking £14.99, 320 pp) THREE HOURS by Rosamund Lupton (Viking £14.99, 320 pp) It is early days, but this could be one of the thrillers of the new decade. … Read more
HISTORY THE ZOOKEEPERS’ WAR by J.W. Mohnhaupt (S&S £18.99, 272 pp) Here’s a tale from the Cold War that’s little-known but deserves not to be. After World War II, as you know, Berlin was split into two. West Berlin was under the control of the Allies, while East Berlin was under the Soviet yoke, and an … Read more
MUST READS By Jane Shilling for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 9 January 2020 | Updated: 00:42 GMT, 11 January 2020 THE WAY WE EAT NOW by Bee Wilson (4th Estate £9.99, 400 pp) ‘For most people across the world, life is getting better but diets are getting worse. Our food is killing us, … Read more
MEMOIR THE SHAPELESS UNEASE: A YEAR OF NOT SLEEPING by Samantha Harvey (Cape £12.99, 192 pp) There can be few people for whom Samantha Harvey’s dazzling, dizzying trip through the nightmare world of the sleepless will be completely foreign. Who among us hasn’t lain awake at night counting backwards from one thousand? I can sometimes … Read more
With the High Street bulging with seductive sale signs, there’s never been a better opportunity to refresh your interiors at a snip. However, with so many tempting options available, it can be easy to get sidetracked and end up buying pieces that offer only short-term pleasure. Shop smarter by using seasonal clearances and ex-display lines as … Read more