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The movie is almost a Downton Abbey reunion of sorts – starring Lily James, Jessica Brown Findlay, Matthew Goode and Penelope Wilton. The impressive cast also boasts Michiel Huisman, Glen Powell, Katherine Parkinson and Tom Courtenay to name a few. Based on the book of the same name, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie […]
Autumn is literature’s awards season. The Man Booker, the National Book Awards and the Nobel Prize were all announced in October, and the wind down to winter is when many readers and writers celebrate or bemoan those who made it or didn’t make it onto the famed short lists. And God forbid that a musician […]
The critical generalization typically goes that movies that are too loyal to their book source material can seem more like live action summaries — jumping from important moment to important moment without ever stopping to breathe — than their own artistic statements. (Thus the argument that series adaptations are the superior form to be extracted […]
Happy birthday to Where the Wild Things Are author and illustrator Maurice Sendak. The Brooklyn-born artist who depicted children as creative, powerful beings with rich lives and minds of their own was inspired by a number of influences during his lifetime, including painters, musicians, and other authors. Sendak was often interviewed about children throughout his […]
Cortana can be quite the chatterbox once you get her going — really, she won’t shut up. The know-it-all can speak Klingon, correctly predict World Cup winners and convert quickly between currencies, including bitcoin. She can tell cheesy jokes — “Don’t trust the atoms. They make up everything.” And her Yoda impression is on point. […]
[unable to retrieve full-text content] CATCH festival fever at the Mighty Hoopla, channel your inner Shakespeare at the theatre and get bookish at a literary festival. Daily Express :: Travel Feed
BOOK Festival season is finally here, so dig out your wellies and sunglasses then head to Victoria Park in London as it welcomes the return of Mighty Hoopla. The pop-themed festival on June 4 has Sophie Ellis-Bextor, All Saints and Charlotte Church on stage, plus alternative performers and club-night legends Sink the Pink and Guilty […]
GALLO Jane Memmler takes a steam train through Yorkshire, visiting sites that inspired our greatest novels Some are clutching paparazzi-size lenses, their heads darting back and forth along the track. Others are sipping steaming mugs of tea while browsing the gift shop, which has wall-to-wall model trains and books for rail enthusiasts. Outside, stationmasters are […]
