The pause of 2020 seems to have led many to reflect on their lives – subsequently, 2022 is the year of the memoir. There will be big name autobiogs from the likes of Matthew Perry, Edward Enninful, Minnie Driver and Jarvis Cocker, alongside stories of survival, creativity, grief and motherhood.Continue Reading
For the first time since the National Trust began looking after Coleton Fishacre, near Kingswear in Devon, the Art Deco property once home to the D’Oyly Carte family, will be open for winter weekends. Voted the second-best garden in the UK by Which? Travel readers, the garden is accredited byContinue Reading
After one night shift on the beat in Liverpool with Martin Freeman’s burned out response officer Chris, Adelayo Adedayo’s rookie cop Rachel has had enough. When she finally snaps, shouting the words “you’re a car crash of a human being” in Chris’s direction, it’s hard not to agree – it’sContinue Reading
I can’t remember a time when contemporary art in London was as shapeshifting and multifarious as it is today. There have been times when certain media or approaches seemed off the menu or beyond the pale, when certain groups held sway. But in 2022, increasingly, anything goes, and often withinContinue Reading
I suspect acclaimed British director Andrea Arnold would rather be viewed as a stroppy cow than a poor one. Perhaps coincidentally, Luma – the bovine heroine of Arnold’s first documentary – excites many emotions, but never anything as simple as pity. Luma, who has the eyes and jawline of aContinue Reading
So, Simon, how did you become interested in Ann Jefferies? I’ve often written about Cornish folklore as a folklore historian and particularly Cornish fairy and pixylore. Ann Jefferies is special because she offers us, not our earliest evidence for Cornish fairies, but our earliest good evidence. She is also ourContinue Reading
Video games are being split into titles geared toward fun and those that beguile us into productivity with points, rewards, and even NFTs.Continue Reading
The hospice is encouraging people across Somerset to take part in the A Mile a Day Challenge throughout 2022 and go the extra mile to support them. St Margaret’s is challenging supporters to run, cycle, swim or even dance a mile a day and log their progress so they canContinue Reading
Hip, hip, hooray for SUPERWORM! Superworm returns to Haldon Forest Park with an exciting new family activity trail. From the creators of The Gruffalo, the hugely popular children’s picture book Superworm returns to Haldon Forest Park in January 2022 with a brand-new family activity trail. Launching on Saturday 15 January,Continue Reading
Review at a glance T he Moroccan-French composer Ahmed Essyad emails his friends early in the 2020 lockdown, describing the empty sheet of paper in front of him. It may not sound the most promising beginning to a major five-part choral and orchestral work by one of Britain’s leading composers.Continue Reading
