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This third and final instalment of Anthony Horowitz’s Susan Ryeland trilogy continues the author’s ingenious mystery-within-a-mystery…
The title is a portmanteau word, one that hardly stretches one’s sleuthing capacity to decipher, which proves, unlike much else in a very…
Test Dept are pioneers of hardcore, ear-battering industrial music who first got together in the early 1980s. They may have originally…
Most of the Brit gangster movies released around the turn of the Millennium were pretty dire. Often influenced by Quentin Tarantino’s crass…
Dance culture is constantly remixing its past, but it seems like we’re in a sudden burst of interesting twists on that. Just in the past…
The first thing I saw on entering just about my favourite theatre was a mic on the end of a lead, centre stage. I’d come a long way, so I…
Barkouf, the operetta that Offenbach wrote in 1860 immediately after Orpheus in the Underworld, was, you might say, dogged by misfortune at…
If your parents were eccentric enough to call you Esmerelda – a name they gleaned from a crossword puzzle – you’d most likely feel destined…
I saw Sam Sweeney and Grace Smith perform back in August at the Sidmouth Folk Festival, in the function room of one of the bigger hotels…
“The knife in the eye is the cruellest blow,” Salman Rushdie considers, in this film of his book reckoning with the assault which almost…