Big Little Lies (2014) is a novel by Australian author Liane Moriarty. The book is actually set in Sydney, in a scenic beachside town called ‘Perriwee Peninsula’. The story centres on Perriwee Primary School and its community of children, teachers and parents. The school has an ocean view. Despite the affluent, idyllic and sunny environment there is a disquieting undercurrent with people…
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Janet Murray. An obituary for my friend and tutor
Posted by Stephen |
An obituary of the journalist and lecturer Janet (Jan) Murray who dies at the Marie Curie Hospice in London on the 1st of July 2016
Review: The Trouble with Scott Capurro at The Bill Murray @CamdenFringe
Posted by Carmel |
“They’re just jokes – I’m not even gay!”
Scott Capurro greets “all my imaginary friends in the front row” as he skips onstage at The Bill Murray. The front row is conspicuously empty – who after all would be so foolish as to sit there? But there’s no escape later in the set when he begins to interact with members of the audience. Before long a man who came out at the age of 30 is describing…
Committee a Musical at the Donmar Theatre
Posted by Mary |
Committee A Musical is the Donmar’s new play based on a Parliamentary Inquiry into the high profile childrens charity Kids Company.
Exhibition review: The Encounter: Drawings from Leonardo to Rembrandt at the National Portrait Gallery
Posted by Sonali |
This modest but occasionally dazzling exhibition, just 49 pictures in all, focuses on the relationship between artist and sitter. Both Renaissance and Baroque artists, including one each by Leonardo Da Vinci and Rembrandt are on show, but it’s the work of German born Holbein which stands out.
In The Encounter we see an astonishingly lifelike series of drawings by him on loan from…
Book review: Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
Posted by Susan |
Pacey and fizzily plotted, Francis Spufford’s Golden Hill is a breathless romp of a novel. The year is 1746, and Mr Smith, a glib tongued and amiable English charmer, is newly pitched up in Manhattan with an order for one thousand pounds in his pocket.
Open letter to tinnitus
Posted by J Bloggs |
Dear Tinnitus
I know you will be surprised to be addressed full on, as it were, when I spend so much time ignoring you. But I felt, for once, like charting our relationship.
I caught you from my friend Harriet. When you first arrived in her head she became very distressed. She told me you were ruining her life and depriving her of all feelings of well being. Particularly she…