10 Apr 2016
William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is one of the bard’s greatest and best-known plays and, like many of his works, the themes expounded upon throughout the course of…
10 Apr 2016
Fairlie Winter and Jenna Rudolph are best friends and have been since birth. Their mothers were best friends who lived a few doors away from each other and the…
7 Apr 2016
Reviews of Harold Pinter’s Old Times range from “one of the greatest plays of the last 100 years” to “a pretentious bore”. For me this production at the Space…
6 Apr 2016
Morden’s fantasy begins well and scarily but soon becomes irritating, with reams of familiar detail, lots of yakking, a certain overstatement and, most…
6 Apr 2016
Following on from Barclay’s similarly-doorstop-like A Tap On The Window (which you might do well being intimately acquainted with before you tackle this one)…
6 Apr 2016
The first novel from Fountain (best-known until now as a comedy writer) is a vividly realised thriller that benefits greatly from its unusual plot, although…
6 Apr 2016
The prolific Hannah’s latest is a taut psychological thriller that can be enjoyed without detailed knowledge of the ‘Culver Valley’ series, which is rather…
6 Apr 2016
Not a work of fiction like his And The Ass Saw The Angel and The Death Of Bunny Munro , this one-of-a-kind description of life on the road as only Nick Cave…
5 Apr 2016
The latest in the rather mammoth ‘Mammoth’ series (which features offerings upon topics as diverse as Sudoku, Westerns, the Vietnam War, Dracula, Shark Attacks…
4 Apr 2016
Yuki Chan is a Japanese student who travels to the UK to unravel tragic family secrets. Ten years earlier her mother toured Brönte country and left behind a…
1 Apr 2016
It starts with the sound of whispers, reminiscent of Erykah Badu’s Mama’s Gun , then adds a slinking bass line, which is joined by a Rhodes piano with…
30 Mar 2016
Churned out during the slasher boom of the late ‘70s/early ‘80s, this drab and dated 1981 horror has a few minor points still worth mentioning: