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The Guardian’s Best summer books 2018, as picked by writers

Posted on 8 July 2018 by admin

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...

Films/Personal/Reviews

“A hum in the drum”: Baby Driver, tinnitus, hearing loss and me

Posted on 27 January 2018 by admin

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...

Books/Films/Reviews/Television

Isolation in Iceland: thoughts on I Remember You

Posted on 28 November 2017 by admin

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 ...

Reviews/Television

Strange history: BBC1’s Taboo

Posted on 19 July 2017 by admin

**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, ...

Reviews/Television

Endeavour and the crime scene photos that never were

Posted on 9 July 2017 by admin

Warning: for spoilers and dead people. Television series Endeavour tells the adventures of young Inspector Morse, when he was mere Detective Constable Morse. I ...

Reviews/Television

Thoughts: To Walk Invisible

Posted on 16 February 2017 by admin

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...

Reviews

Review: River, or The Adventure of the Haunted Policeman

Posted on 1 December 2015 by admin

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...

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