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8 cosy and heart-warming books to read over Christmas

‘Tis the season for candy canes, cosy knitwear and twinkling light displays. For book lovers,…

Theatre Review: Tea Break Theatre’s Sleeping Beauty on Zoom

Pantomimes have been moved online in 2020 and Tea Break Theatre take their end of…

Book Review: People of Abandoned Character by Clare Whitfield

Stories of Jack the Ripper, the unidentified serial killer who stalked East London’s impoverished areas in…

Come Away Review

Come Away explores why Peter Pan and Alice decide to visit Neverland and Wonderland, and…

The Macaluso Sisters Review

When we first meet the Macaluso sisters, they are five girls, ranging in age from…

The best books of 2020: The Glass Hotel, Hamnet, The Foundling and more

In a year that’s seen so many theatre productions shut down, close to all movie…

Best TV characters of 2020

Human connection is so important, and in a year where we had very little of…

Book Review: The Port of London Murders (British Library Crime Classics) by Josephine Bell

The arrival of the San Angelo into port in the Pool of London (the stretch…

Best TV shows of 2020: The Queen’s Gambit, The Outsider, I May Destroy You and more

It’s been a great, strange year for TV amid a pandemic. Despite the shut-down for…

Best films of 2020: Babyteeth, Dating Amber, Da 5 Bloods and more

Few industries have escaped 2020 without suffering serious damage, and the film industry was not…

Book Review: Naturalist: A Graphic Adaptation by Edward O. Wilson, Jim Ottaviani & C.M. Butzer

“Most children have a bug period; I never grew out of mine.” Heralded as “the…

Book Review: The Secret Life of Fungi by Aliya Whiteley

At a time of year when everyone is taken by the brilliant brown and gold…