Friday, December 05, 2025

The Stanley Spencer Gallery, Cookham

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5 December 2025 Last weekend we were in the pretty town of Cookham on the Thames in Berkshire to visit the Stanley Spencer Gallery. It’s a l...
Friday, November 28, 2025

‘The Devil and the Dark Water’ by Stuart Turton

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28 November 2025 Having really enjoyed Stuart Turton’s remarkable novel ‘The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle’ (reviewed here in April 2019...
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Northampton Symphony Orchestra concert

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18 November 2025 I have been a member of the Northampton Symphony Orchestra for 25 years but last Saturday’s concert was special for me as i...
Friday, November 14, 2025

The Postal Museum

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14 November 2025 For the majority of the seven years I worked for Making Music our office was in Rosebery Avenue in London, just a few hundr...
Thursday, November 06, 2025

'The Captive' by Ned Beauman writing as Kit Burgoyne

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6 November 2025 Ned Beauman is one of my favourite contemporary authors: I have enjoyed all his novels, with ‘The Teleportation Accident’ (r...
Wednesday, October 29, 2025

'Mrs Warren's Profession' by George Bernard Shaw

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29 October 2025 This year we’ve made two visits to Shaw's Corner - the house where George Bernard Shaw lived in Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfo...
Friday, October 24, 2025

'Born With Teeth' by Liz Duffy Adams

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24 October 2025 In 2016 the Guardian reported new evidence, based on computational analysis, that Christopher Marlowe collaborated with Will...

'Clown Town' by Mick Herron

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24 October 2025 It was wonderful to return to the world of Jackson Lamb and the Slow Horses in Mick Herron’s new spy novel in the Slough Hou...