Madame Burova is closing up her booth on the Brighton seafront and retiring after over 50 years as a Tarot Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant. She is the keeper of secrets. Anything that she has been told in confidence during a reader remains with her alone. It is like the sanctity […]
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
Tracy Chevalier’s new book is the latest in the Hogarth Shakespeare series of modern day retellings of classic Shakespeare plays. Telling the story of Othello in a more contemporary setting, New Boy was always going to be a bit edgier than some of the others that have preceded it. It […]
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
Set in London in the mid-1960s. Theatre land has welcomed American actress Iolanthe Green as the leading lady in a new play at the Galaxy Theatre. As the book opens Lanny has gone missing and a media storm has ensued. She said goodbye to her dresser Anna Treadwell at the […]
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
I’ve always thought that a Jodi Picoult book was a bit like watching an episode of House. Right at the start you get to know the people and characters concerned then spend the next part wondering what the “bad thing” is that will inevitably happen. After that bad thing has […]
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes