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All That Fall, Jermyn Street Theatre, London
Friday 12 October 2012
“It is suicide to be abroad. But what is it to be at home...what is it to be at home? A lingering dissolution,” declares the elderly, ailing Mrs Rooney in Beckett's 1957 radio play where she is heard dragging herself to a rural station in order to meet her blind husband off the mysteriously delayed train from Dublin.
Rowling vows to write for children again
Monday 08 October 2012
The best-selling author J K Rowling has vowed to continue writing and promised that her next published book would be for children.
Fifty Shades outsells Potter on UK Amazon
Thursday 02 August 2012
E L James's Fifty Shades trilogy has outsold J K Rowling's Harry Potter series on Amazon's UK site. James has sold more than four million copies of her books in print and on Kindle since they went on sale in March, making her the bestselling author of all time at Amazon.co.uk.
Fifty Shades outsells Harry Potter
Wednesday 01 August 2012
EL James's Fifty Shades trilogy has outsold JK Rowling's seven-book Harry Potter series on Amazon's UK site.
Revealed: Harry Potter is the Antichrist!
Monday 18 June 2012
Boy magician is being portrayed as the Devil in disguise in Alan Moore's latest graphic novel
Harry Potter coming to Xbox 360 Kinect
Monday 28 May 2012
Eurocom bringing the adventures of Harry, Ron and Hermione to Microsoft's Kinect peripheral.
'Blackly comic' Rowling book far from Harry
Friday 13 April 2012
JK Rowling was not joking when she said her next book would be "very different" to the magical world of Harry Potter. Yesterday it emerged her first novel aimed at adults would follow parish council elections in an English market town. The celebrated British author's first book in five years will be called The Casual Vacancy, and will be a "blackly comic" tale of an idyllic English town at war itself, the publishers revealed.
Uncle Vanya, Minerva Theatre, Chichester
Friday 06 April 2012
Caryl Brahms, an astute critic and a funny writer, said that characters in Chekhov always harked back to their beginnings but learnt no lesson from their past; they were content to sit around the samovar and talk.
Stars turn up for Harry Potter studio tour opening
Sunday 01 April 2012
Harry Potter stars turned out yesterday at the red carpet opening of a studio tour which gives fans a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the blockbuster film series.
Walking in the footsteps of Harry and Hermione
Friday 30 March 2012
Fifteen-year-old fan Holly Hatfield guides us – and her dad – through the astonishing new Warner Bros Harry Potter tour near Watford
Attractions: A Hogwarts and all day out
Friday 30 March 2012
Tomorrow, The Making of Harry Potter tour opens to the British public – and it's wizard, says 15-year-old Holly Hatfield, who's had a sneak peek
JK Rowling in deal for first adult novel
Thursday 23 February 2012
Harry Potter author JK Rowling has signed a deal to publish her first novel for adults.
The Blagger's Guide To...The Woman In Black
Sunday 12 February 2012
The old favourites who keep on riding their Luck
Monday 02 January 2012
HBO's new drama features the oldest cast on television. It's a must-see, says Sarah Hughes
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