Last week I put on something slightly very rock and roll and headed to Hays Gallery for a party. Not just any party: a 15th birthday party for Tom Gates, the boy with the doodled homework diary who has been making children (and their parents) laugh for a decade and a half. And at the centre of it, looking exactly as she always does, creative, warm, and genuinely delighted to be there, was Liz…
After my last piece on Rock London where I dragged you through the capital’s musical landmarks and probably made you crave a leather jacket, I thought I’d swap the guitar picks for library cards. Now it’s time to show you literary London, London for literature lovers, my very own guide of locations made famous in novels.
So grab your Oyster card, a paperback, and a sense of…
Joseph Millson has been a familiar face on stage and screen for over three decades from Casino Royale to The Last Kingdom, from the Royal Shakespeare Company to The Phantom of the Opera’s 40th anniversary cast, which he joined this very week. But his latest role is one he’s never played before: novelist. His debut novella, Miller Rose Roberts, is a coming-of-age odyssey about memory…
Some books transport you to a time. Others transport you to a feeling. Trip ’89, the debut novel by Chris Foster Tolley, does both and it does so with the windows down, the music up, and a campervan named Ken leading the way.
The premise is delightfully simple. It is 1989, and twenty-two-year-old Cea is stuck: stuck in a sleepy village, feeling like life is happening everywhere…
When Becky Parry was sectioned for the fourth time, she could not have imagined that her darkest days would lead her to write a book. But that is exactly what happened. Healing from Psychosis – We are Living in a Simulation is her extraordinary account of living through psychosis, challenging everything we think we know about the condition.
Becky is a coach, alternative therapist…
Most of us have barely made it to the end of the M25 without a back seat meltdown. So the idea of taking a month long train journey across Russia, Siberia and Mongolia might sound either thrilling or completely mad. But Martin Kyrle, a seasoned traveller with seven decades of globe-trotting under his belt, has done exactly that, and he has written a book about it that will make you laugh out…
Every parent knows the feeling. You have just mopped the floor. Then someone spills juice everywhere. Or a well-aimed muddy boot leaves its mark on the clean sofa. In those moments, it is hard to remember that mistakes can be wonderful learning opportunities. But that is exactly the message at the heart of Dino School, the latest Giggly Furbottom Adventure.
Deep in the emerald Great…
If you’ve caught even a whisper of the Frida fever currently sweeping London, you’ll know we’re in the grip of a full-blown Fridamania. Murals of her iconic unibrow are popping up on Shoreditch walls, flower crowns are back with a vengeance, and the new Tate Modern exhibition (which I had the absolute pleasure of reviewing for London Mums Magazine recently – read my show review here)…
If you’ve ever found yourself in a souvenir shop on Oxford Street, stifling a laugh at a corgi-shaped teapot, you’ve already tapped into the strange magic of the monarchy. They’re not just a constitutional institution; they’re characters in the nation’s longest, most expensive soap opera. As a non-monarchist, this is precisely how I love them, as folklore, a living fairy tale full of…
In an education landscape increasingly shaped by debates over financial literacy, civics, media influence, and real-world preparedness, Tuttle Twins has emerged as a notable participant in the growing market for supplemental educational content. Founded in the United States by Connor Boyack, president of the Libertas Institute, the brand was launched in 2014 with the aim of helping parents…