Over the years, I have heard stories of authors who have demanded that their publicist go score drugs for them, had tantrums with booksellers or dressed down literary critics in crowded rooms. In this business, get a reputation for being difficult and you risk cutting short your career.Last year I told a well-known young author [...]

Hayley Atwell’s Bianca is only moments from a desperate, searing death. Also making his RSC debut, as Bianca’s first husband Leantio, Elliot Cowan moves strikingly from newly-wed buoyancy to bereft pain. Middleton’s sympathies lay palpably with that non-aristocratic, wounded young man, and Cowan articulates his thoughts in verse with clear intelligence.
Boswell’s production, like the play, [...]

Outside the shit-stem is a real SEX PISTOL.”The Sex Pistols’ former bass player, Glen Matlock, told The Independent on Sunday yesterday it had been a unanimous decision by the band to steer clear. “It’s nothing to do with the bands – it’s all to do with business When I first heard about it I was [...]

Here, we tend to think of it as complicated, and even a little scary. It’s a hard, pungent-smelling, musty thing that resembles a piece of leather. What on earth, are we meant to do with it?
I realise, what with issues of over-fishing, that cod is a potential minefield, but I believe that the [...]

Some early interchange play, often involving Josh Lewsey, augured well But England could not sustain it.. A Guinness advertising line used to proclaim “good things come to those who wait” and Jerry Flannery is living proof. It has been a fair while since he was a teenager pulling pints of the black stuff in his [...]