This blog should be in a ‘I’m viewing’ category but as I don’t have one, it’s here…. Never until now has a film director asked me to critique a film and as I love film I can’t resist the opportunity. Grzegorz Cisiecki (GC from now on) has sent me a link (see end of this blog) to his

This is the time of year when Francophiles long to make a pilgrimage to South France and sit in the sun in the lee of a limestone scar, drinking wine, listening to dry, rustling vegetation stirring before hot winds and making important choices about food, shade, sleep and whether or not to move. Failing which, and stuck in England

The new Insight Guide Travel Photography How to take striking images (ed. Tony Halliday) is on object lesson to other publishers and their editors in how to produce a great, readable, perusable  instructional book.

For some bizarre reason such books are often the opposite of what you’d expect for  a visual and exciting subject with very

PATRICK WHITE, the Australian novelist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973, has never been especially popular, commercial or comfortable to read, even for his fans. So I was surprised but pleased to see that he is one of six finalists in the ‘lost’ Man Book Prize with The Vivisector (1970).
My introduction to him was very odd

Imtiaz Dharker’s disembodied voice floated into my consciousness during a moment of insomnia when I was listening to the World Service. It kept me awake for an hour. Dharker is a poet who recites her poetry from memory, like ordinary living speech and not in the dirge-like… CLICK FOR FULL BLOG