Please join me in a new blog venture, Hooray for Dead White Males, an occasional series in which I attempt … More
Author: choirboymotel
Rita Reviewed
In which I return to my old stomping ground of Wellington, and review Rita, the city’s hottest new restaurant. One … More
Joining the Club
15 August 2016 London My review of A Question of Upbringing, the first Anthony Powell’s twelve-volume novel series A Dance … More
Letter to a Brexiteer
Dear Lizzie It was certainly a shock, reading on Facebook that you’d voted for Brexit. A mutual friend told me … More
Each Man Kills the Thing He Loves
14 June 2016 London Barack Obama has called the Orlando shooting a “hate crime” against the LGBTQ community. For LGBTQ … More
Women Take Back the Write
19 May 2016 London Is feminism dead in the UK? This month’s Something Rhymed Literary Salon series re-opens a much-needed debate about … More
Alas, Poor Cumbers
15 August 2015 London Thespian totty du jour Benedict Cumberbatch is the latest high-profile actor to play Hamlet in a … More
It Is So Ordered
27 June 2015 Moncontour, Poitou-Charentes, France There aren’t many mornings where I wake up crying. This morning was one of them. On … More
Not Far From the Middling Crowd
16 May 2015 London The BBC and Thomas Vinterberg’s prettified adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s novel Far From the Madding Crowd fails … More
Diff’rent Strokes
8 March 2015 London Fifty Shades of Grey continues a well-worn and lucrative literary tradition of bad writing about kinky … More