Fashion: Pencil in the celebrations
Interiors, Brighton Festival
Wednesday 16 May 2012
There’s domestic drama at Brighton's Theatre Royal where the stage is filled with a large window, behind which twinkles an invitingly lit dining room. This is the setting for Interiors, first seen at Edinburgh’s Traverse in 2009 and now, thankfully, revived.
Want to be alone? Well, you're in luck
Tuesday 01 May 2012
In the online age, conversation is about quality, not quantity, argues Rhodri Marsden
Trending: Want to be alone? You’re in luck
Tuesday 01 May 2012
In the age of self-serve and online, many of us spend days without speaking to anyone. Does it matter? Rhodri Marsden argues that with conversation, it's all about quality, not quantity
'Yellow Dragon Disease' threatens fruit crop
Sunday 01 April 2012
A citrus disease that has killed millions of trees and cost growers billions of dollars across Florida and Brazil has been detected in California, despite the industry's best efforts to keep it at bay.
Book Of A Lifetime: A Perfect Spy, By John le Carré
Friday 03 February 2012
When writing a recent novel, I spent time thinking about the concept of identity; the idea that people can fool not just their close associates, but even themselves, and literally become the person they believe they are. It became increasingly clear to me that nobody ever really knows another person. And my mind kept returning to John le Carré's 'A Perfect Spy', where the world of spies and double-spies becomes a metaphor for the treachery of the human heart, where identity can become lost and confused in a web of hidden corridors.








