If there’s one thing that’s guaranteed to make me pick up a book or watch a film it’s a connection, real or perceived, to my own life. I would probably not have bought Andrea Arnold’s Red Road if I hadn’t been brought up in the eponymous street. A similar thing happened with this year’s World Book Night list…
Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner
12 March 2012 by Leave a Comment
One of the most enduring on-screen partnerships was undoubtedly that of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Their long-standing romance was hidden from fans but is now recognised as one of Hollywood’s greatest real-life love stories…
And Still I Rise
17 November 2011 by Leave a Comment
I didn’t realise when I started to read Doreen Lawrence’s autobiography a couple of weeks ago that the trial of two men accused of her son’s murder would be starting this month, making the events described in And Still I Rise seem very recent and frighteningly relevant once again….
To Kill A Mockingbird
18 July 2011 by Leave a Comment
The perfect novel – with the greatest literary father ever
Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird is, quite simply, the greatest novel ever written. A story of prejudice and intolerance in the small Alabama town of Maycomb…