We’re living in uncertain times. What with being in the middle of a global pandemic and not being able to buy a single roll of toilet paper or, you know, figure out what on earth is happening, it’s only natural that we might...
Read MoreAlan Ayckbourn has written more than 80 plays. He is 80-years-old and, earlier in 2019, he celebrated the 60th anniversary of his professional playwriting debut (with The Square Cat). But he’d never written a novel –...
Read MoreJennifer Makumbi’s father was a bank manager in Kampala. It was 1978, at the height of Idi Amin’s reign of terror, when her family’s lives were changed forever. To get a fix on what happened when ‘Manchester Happened’...
Read MoreInterviewing Bill Bryson is a dangerous occupation, both in the preparation and the execution. I found this out the hard way while researching my chat with the multi-million selling author, and again when writing it up. ...
Read MoreI know we all say it about the tele of our childhoods, but kids’ TV in the 70s really was special. There may only have been three channels but there were lots of shows you rushed home after school to watch, many leaving an...
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