I spotted this Q&A on Stephanie Pomfrett’s lovely blog here, and very much enjoyed reading it. I love having a voyeuristic peer into the bookshelves of others, and I decided…
Last Friday, I was lucky enough to be invited to Glyndebourne by my friend Sophie and her parents. I was invited about a week before the event, which meant only…
While this might be my first blog post on the Olympics, rest assured that I’ve been absolutely glued to the screen. I’m completely swept up in Olympics fever and I’m…
I hate being bored, don’t you? In the back of my head, I can hear the echoes of the phrase ‘only boring people get bored!’ Well. Sometimes interesting people need…
On Tuesday night, I whipped myself off back to the metropolis for a talk at the V&A, named, rather ominously, ‘Dead wood: The Future of Magazines’. There were four speakers:…
“They had made a movie about us.” I can’t quite remember at what age I first became aware of Bret Easton Ellis. What I can remember is reading American Psycho…
I always find the start of the New Year a bit strange. You’ve built so many high hopes for the year, made your resolutions, started making plans, decided you want…
Aka, How Not To Be a Lady How To Be a Woman was always going to be a challenging book for me. Put simply, I am a disgrace to feminism.…
Or, where did it all go wrong? Even when I read the synopsis for each episode of Black Mirror, the third instalment was the one which grabbed me the least.…
Well then. Fifteen Million Merits last night, right after the X Factor final. Who watched? What did you think? For me, it made me realise how good I’d found The…
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