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Jim Broadbent’s Scrooge is a nice old man

Jim Broadbent’s Scrooge is a nice old man

Robert Tanitch reviews A Christmas Carol at Noel Coward Theatre, London WC2 There have been countless stage, film and television versions of Charles Dickens’s novel, ever since it was first publ ...
The Mill Girls of Albion Lane by Jenny Holmes

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 ...
Something to Hide by Deborah Moggach

Something to Hide by Deborah Moggach

I have been a really keen follower of Deborah Moggach since discovering her writing in 1978 when I read her debut novel You must be Sisters. As one of four sisters the book immediately caught my imagi ...