A gig on your laptop sounds like a contradiction in terms. It won’t be the same consuming thrill, but it can still be a treat of a different kind – cooler, calmer, more intimate. And easier to get to. There are now so many virtual shows that the Gigs And Tours website publishes a daily … Read more
From Rick Gekoski’s witty latest to new stories by Richard Ford, Elisabeth Thomas’ debut and a satire by Jessica Anthony, this week’s best new fiction By Simon Humphreys For Event Magazine and Hephzibah Anderson and Eithne Farry For Event Magazine and Gwendolyn Smith For Event Magazine Published: 22:01 BST, 9 May 2020 | Updated: 22:01 … Read more
HISTORY LONDON 1945 by Maureen Waller (John Murray £12.99, 560pp) Twenty-four hours of manic rejoicing flanked at both ends by years of queuing and hardship: that’s the overwhelming impression given by Maureen Waller’s superbly well-researched and detailed portrait of London in 1945, reissued in paperback to commemorate today’s anniversary of VE Day. It really happened: … Read more
Build your own island getaway! Author explores the globe’s blissful utopias in a fascinating new book Alastair Bonnett explores islands around the world in a new geography book He visits The World, a collection of 300 islands off the coast of Dubai British author is met by staff complaining about the size of India’s representation … Read more
PSYCHO THRILLERS By Christena Appleyard for the Daily Mail Published: 22:02 BST, 7 May 2020 | Updated: 22:02 BST, 7 May 2020 THREE PERFECT LIARS by Heidi Perks (Century £12.99, 448 pp) THREE PERFECT LIARS by Heidi Perks (Century £12.99, 448 pp) This book opens with a vivid description of an unnamed woman watching an … Read more
SCIENCE CURED by Jeffrey Rediger (Penguin £16.99, 400 pp) When Jeffrey Rediger, a psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School, began writing this compelling book about illness and wellness, he can hardly have imagined that it would have been published in the middle of a catastrophic pandemic. Rediger offers many clinically documented examples of people stricken with … Read more
Author who had an orchidectomy due to testicular cancer reveals the unspeakable truth of life as a eunuch in a gripping memoir Laurence Dillon has penned a memoir about the history of eunuchs Author was inspired after having an orchidectomy for testicular cancer Facing a life of being infertile, he reflects on opportunities that he didn’t … Read more
Joan As Police Woman Cover Two Out now Rating: Out of this strange suspended spring, patterns are emerging. If an album isn’t postponed, it’s quite likely to … Read more
Shostakovich’s Symphony No 11 is a remarkable piece with a powerful statement and it’s brilliantly orchestrated by the BBC Philharmonic By David Mellor for Event Published: 22:02 BST, 2 May 2020 | Updated: 22:02 BST, 2 May 2020 Shostakovich: Symphony No 11 ‘The Year 1905’ BBC Philharmonic, conducted by John Storgårds Chandos, out now … Read more
Valkyrie: The Women Of The Viking World Johanna Katrin Fridriksdottir Bloomsbury Academic £20 Rating: When we think of Vikings, we immediately conjure up a vision of hairy men in pointy helmets with nothing but pillage and slaughter on their mind. But … Read more