Nigella Lawson: “I have found my métier and I have no ambition whatsoever to write a novel”
Nigella Lawson is setting out on a national tour. She comes to Brighton Dome on Wednesday 24 November.
Books
REVIEW: Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune
It’s about people finding ways to make the most of the time they have, and finding the power to enable themselves to change, and love being worth the risk of huge change. Throw in a ghost doggy, an impish spectral Grandad and a rather swish tearoom at the end of existence and this is an uplifting,
BOOK REVIEW: The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle by Matt Cain
the narrative is suffused with joy, skipping around with an inventiveness that carries the plot along.
REVIEW: ‘In the Dream House’ by Carmen Maria Machado
The book is astounding, but with its clarion call of authentic experience it shows us the author not only growing stronger in a world determined to undermine and destroy, but learning, navigating and finally breaking free to document, share and convince. Machado redefines what a memoir can be and gi
REVIEW: The Brightonians by Darren Kay
It’s a fun read, with a narrative momentum which whisks you along like the Volks railway, although unlike that ancient locomotive this book takes you somewhere interesting, a rather fabulous fantastical Brighton, not quite the same, but oddly familiar.
REVIEW: Bright Poems for Dark Days by Julie Sutherland
Sutherland has amassed an eclectic group of poets here, from uber modern like Carol Ann Duffy & Maya Angelou to weathered classics from John Donne & Emily Dickinson, the range is impressive. Some fun, frivolous and fancy, others profound & pertinent. It touches the spot.
REVIEW: Deep Sniff by Adam Zmith
The book takes us on a radical journey, pushing at boundaries, lube’d up by our relationship with poppers, stretching us open, filling us with thick gorgeous fat facts, celebrating our filthy minds, erotic bodies, and gorgeous unstoppable need for pleasure.