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Book Review: Very Nice by Marcy Dermansky

Looking at the cover of Very Nice, you could easily be fooled into thinking it’s…

Book Review: At the Pond – Swimming at the Hampstead Ladies’ Pond

It’s over 30°C and the air is thick with sticky, humid heat. It’s the kind…

Book Review: Arctic Zoo by Robert Muchamore

Arctic Zoo is a YA thriller about young people coming into their own power. Centred on fifteen and sixteen year old Georgia and Julius, we explore their different worlds and how they end up crossing paths on a mental health ward.

Theatre Review: The Tempest at Osney Mead Industrial Estate

The magical island ruled by Prospero is transposed to an industrial estate in Oxford. After…

Book Review: Miracle Creek by Angie Kim

The most tired piece of advice given to first time novelists is ‘write what you…

Book Review: The July Girls by Phoebe Locke

It’s 2005 and Addie is about to turn ten. With an absent mother and volatile…

Book Review: Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Think Cinderella, but in Mexico, in the 1920’s. And instead of a handsome prince, there’s…

Papi Chulo Review

John Butler’s comedy-drama begins with TV weatherman Sean, played by the devilishly handsome Matt Bomer,…

Book Review: Looker by Laura Sims

Laura Sims’ dark domestic debut is a book about what happens when fascination veers dangerously…

Nick Setchfield: Scare Tissue – Four Frights That Left Their Mark On Me

MIDWINTER You don’t expect to find existential dread in the pages of Radio Times –…

Theatre Review: The Importance of Being… Earnest? at Pleasance Theatre London

With the 125th anniversary of The Importance of Being Earnest approaching, the farcical comedy is certainly…

Five Feet Apart DVD Review

Stella (Haley Lu Richardson) and Will (Cole Sprouse) are two seventeen-year-olds with life threatening Cystic…