The festival of books returns
The world’s first literature festival makes its welcome return to Cheltenham this week. Starting on Friday 08 October and running through until Sunday 17 October The Times and The Sunday Times Chelten ...
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BOOKS on Theatre, Film, Dance and Broadway
Robert Tanitch’s Round-Up of Books No 3 (2020) TOM STOPPARD A Life by Hermione Lee (Faber). Anybody who has enjoyed Stoppard’s plays will want to read Hermione Lee’s lengthy and astute biography. Ther ...
Books on Oscar Wilde, Vivien Leigh, Writers, Quotes, Film, Restaurants
Robert Tanitch’s Round-up of Books No 4 (2018) Oscar: A Life by Matthew Sturgis (Head of Zeus £25). Oscar Wilde wrote the most famous and wittiest comedy in the English language, The Importance of Bei ...
Is it the end of the pier show?
The British seaside appears to have retained a special magnetism, and this may have something to do with the fascinating structures made fashionable by the Victorians. Piers were designed to be as ind ...