The Guardian’s Best summer books 2018, as picked by writers
I had absolutely no idea at first that Fatal Evidence appeared in the Guardian’s Best summer books, as picked by writers. I noticed I had a new follower o...
Category: Reviews
“A hum in the drum”: Baby Driver, tinnitus, hearing loss and me
I am very much behind the curve as it was only the other evening that I finally got round to watching Baby Driver. It shouldn’t have taken me so long beca...
Isolation in Iceland: thoughts on I Remember You
Having read Yrsa Sigurðardóttir’s novel I Remember You (Ég man þig) and seen the film adaptation, I found myself thinking about the theme of isolation. A ...
Strange history: BBC1’s Taboo
**SPOILER WARNINGS** I was excited about BBC1’s gritty historical drama Taboo. After all, it was created by Steven Knight (the man behind Peaky Blinders, ...
Endeavour and the crime scene photos that never were
Warning: for spoilers and dead people. Television series Endeavour tells the adventures of young Inspector Morse, when he was mere Detective Constable Morse. I ...
Thoughts: To Walk Invisible
I’d seen the trailers – this Brontë biopic promised an accurately short Charlotte, and an Emily who doled out physical violence when enraged that he...
Review: River, or The Adventure of the Haunted Policeman
There are hundreds of crime dramas on our TVs, and each one tries to attack this old genre in a new way – set it in Oxford (Inspector Morse), set it in tw...