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Review: Pride and Prejudice (*sort of). Bristol Old Vic It’s a truth universally acknowledged, that a single novel by Jane…
Welcome to the latest issue of my occasional magazine that essentially ties up the various features and reviews that I’ve…
There’s a scene where Evelyn’s daughter Joy Wang enters a room and her father asks, ‘What are you doing here?’…
Right Ho, Jeeves. By PG Wodehouse. Book review. Pip, pip. Tip top. And midnight cycle rides. What Ho, Jeeves, is…
By Harry Mottram: Until I visited a museum where there was a skeleton of a Neolithic man my faith in…
MARCH 18, 2023 Book Review. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Age 13 3/4Sue Townsend’s comic 1982 fictional diary style…
Review: This House at the Tobacco Factory, Bristol Order! Order! A bewigged and authoritative Louise O’Dowd as a very young-looking…
By Harry Mottram: There are certain sections of British society that politicians should be cautious about criticising. Nurses, dog walkers,…
Book Review. Emil and the Detectives by Erich KastnerThere’s an element of what could have been in Erich Kastner’s 1929…
By Harry Mottram: those (like me) of a certain age will recall the politics of 1974 with the fall of…