Book clubs for everyone
Book groups are a very popular way of meeting new people and sharing a common interest, but it is often hard to find one locally as they are normally set up by word of mouth. Reading is usually a soli ...
BOOK REVIEWS
Bright Stars by Sophie Duffy
Cameron Sparks is a quiet shy boy from Edinburgh, the first of his family to go to University. At Lancaster he makes some unlikely friends in Tommo, Bex and Christie and while he falls in love with B ...
The Mill Girls of Albion Lane by Jenny Holmes
This is a heart-warming and gritty tale of working class family life set in Bradford in 1931. With the after effects of the first world war still taking their toll and the depression looming on the ho ...
Robert Tanitch reviews a major book on the theatre
THE 101 GREATEST PLAYS by Michael Billington. (Guardian and Faber & Faber £18.99). Michael Billington says “eyebrows will doubtless be raised about my final selection, the omissions even more than ...