Penny Howard from Beyond the Yalla Dog shares her experience of seeing Sir Peter Blake in the flesh, as an Artist in Conversation at The Royal Academy. It is always a privilege to see an icon in the flesh and I knew that Sir Peter Blake now needed a stick to get around these days […]
I have always had a particular fondness for meta-fiction, and love reading books about writing books. This is a particularly delicious example of the genre. The book opens with celebrated author Erich Ackerman returning to West Berlin in 1988 to promote his latest novel, Dread, which had recently won a prestigious literary award (known simply […]
This is another delightful instalment from the chronicles of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves. I won’t even attempt to summarise the plot. For one thing, it is, as always with P. G. Wodehouse’s stories, incredibly complicated (although he always manages to resolve all the various threads), but also because when deconstructed it would simply sound very […]
