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 ...
Category: Television
Real-life ecclesiastical sleuths: Reverend Wilkins & The Tragedy at Wix
Ecclesiastical sleuths are not unknown to crime fiction and drama – there’s Father Dowling, there’s G K Chesterton’s Father Brown, and J...
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...
From The Bridge to Hinterland at the Birmingham Literature Festival
A perfect chaser for the talk by Walter Iuozzolino, he of Walter Presents, had to be the talk given by crime drama writer-creators Hans Rosenfeldt, of Swedish/D...