Jumpin’ Jazz, Evocative Reading and Fine Films

      Why flit off to the jazz clubs of Manhattan when you can pop…

Barney’s Cool Jazz at WAAPA

      There was a touch of New York’s Blue Note jazz club at WAAPA…

Books: The Colony

      In the summer of 1969, as sectarian violence erupts across Ireland, two outsiders…

Film: Tim Roth Shines in Sundown

      Mexican director  Michel Franco (New Order, Chronic) has made an engrossing and enigmatic film…

Lucy Burton’s Hazelnut and Honey Nougat

      Now here’s a super cookbook idea for our pandemic times. Lucy Burton has…

Film: Everything Went Fine

      For a film about a man who wants to die, Everything Went Fine…

Film: Operation Mincemeat

      Classic British restraint, humour and stiff upper-lip, plus a great cast, bring lots…