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 ...
Tag: television
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, ...
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...
Walter Presents at the Birmingham Literature Festival
The annual Birmingham Literature Festival is run by Writing West Midlands, offering a programme of events about the written word – talks with writers, and...
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...