Books
‘The Half’ is how actors refer to the half hour before their play begins, when they ready themselves, steady themselves, for their performance.
Deadlier than the male
When does a novel stop being a novel and become a crime story? It’s often assumed that there is an unbridgeable gap between them, but that’s not necessarily so.
Arts
Let down by Britten
Caught by chance on Remembrance Sunday, the broadcast of the composer’s celebrated recording of War Requiem kept me hooked, listening with half an ear, half fascinated, half repelled, for the whole duration of a trip down memory lane, recalling the wave of patriotic fervour and heart-on-sleeve emotion surrounding the work’s première, 1962, in the new Coventry cathedral.
The fall guy
Break out the bunting. Crack open the champagne. Spit-roast the capon and prepare to party. Or, come to think of it, don’t bother.
Books
Highs and lows on the laughometer
Just What I Always Wanted: Unwrapping the World’s Most Curious Presents, by Robin Laurance
Chalk and cheese
The British in France: Visitors and Residents since the Revolution, by Peter Thorold
Style & Travel
Pink and potent
Never gamble your pension on a food fashion.
Stocking- filler fizz
Stuck for stocking-filler ideas and feel like raising an insouciant middle finger to the credit crunch?
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