Netflix, it will not surprise you to learn, has another cleverly exuberant hit on its streaming hands. The new kids on the watercooler block is Enola Holmes, based on Nancy Springer’s series of delightful books, a film that’s all about the younger sister of Sherlock Holmes (Millie Bobby Brown) who Continue Reading
Book review: Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell #LoveYourBookshop #LYBD2020
Happy Love Your Bookshop Day everyone! If you are like me, you love your bookshop every day and the books you get there with immense affection, but today is a day when you can shower love, praise and enduring pleasure upon the good people who put up with a lot Continue Reading
Comics review: Crowded (TP 1 & 2) by Sebela / Stein / Brandt / Farrell / Rae
There is no greater joy than plunging into a highly-regarded series of any kind, but in this case a graphic novel, and finding that it’s not just as good as everyone says but quite possibly even better. Eisner-nominated Crowded from Image comics, which has now been collected into two gorgeously-presented Continue Reading
Book review: The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
Belonging somewhere, truly belonging somewhere, is a powerful thing. It can provide the kind of safety and security of which adventurous, well-lived lives are made, it allows us to explore and express who we are without fear of sanction or condemnation, and it instils a sense of shared humanity through Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs: My current 5 fave video clips – Rejjie Snow, Jessie Ware, Astrid S, Reyko, Paradis + #Eurovision update
Video clips are a brilliant way to promote a song. If the artist can’t be where you are, and let’s face it that’s more often the case than not given the burdensome constraints of corporeality, they are the perfect means of bringing the artist to you. Not at all video Continue Reading