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Category Archives: Fiction
Carrie Soto is Back review
Booktok sensation Taylor Jenkins Reid’s latest is a juicy beach read. Read my full Telegraph review here
Posted in Fiction, Journalism
Tagged beach read, booktok, carrie soto is back, celebrity, novel, review, taylor jenkins reid, telegraph, tennis, tiktok
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TikTok’s old-school books boom: why Gen Z fell in love with ‘dark academia’
Dusty libraries, long-haired youths writing poetry, candlelight rituals… TikTok’s love for old books is driving a publishing bonanza. Read my full Telegraph article here
Posted in Fiction, Journalism
Tagged booktok, gen z, gothic, influencer, novel, olivie blake, publishing, social media, telegraph, the atlas six, tiktok, waterstones
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The strange, grisly saga of Eva Perón’s corpse
Argentina’s adored first lady led an incredible life. But the bizarre events that unfolded after her death were the stuff of horror fiction. Read my full Telegraph article here
Posted in Fiction, Journalism, TV
Tagged argentina, Colonel Carlos Eugenio de Moori Koenig, corpse, death, disney plus, embalmed, eva peron, eva persons body, evita, first lady, juan peron, Maria Maggi, necrophilia, novel, Pedro Ara, president, Salma Hayek, santa evita, telegraph, Tomas Eloy Martinez, tv
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The Night Ship review
The fascinating true story of the Batavia’s shipwreck should make for a riveting novel. Unfortunately, this isn’t it. Read my full Telegraph review here
Posted in Fiction, Journalism
Tagged batavia, book, historical fiction, jess kidd, novel, review, shipwreck, telegraph, the night ship
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Will this novel do for Joan of Arc what Wolf Hall did for Thomas Cromwell?
Katherine J Chen’s fresh and enthralling novel Joan reimagines the servant girl who took on the English as a hardscrabble survivor. Read my full Telegraph review here
Posted in Fiction, Journalism
Tagged book, fiction, hilary mantel, historical, joan, joan of arc, katherine j chen, novel, review, telegraph, wolf hall
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Dark Earth review
Magic in the ghostly rubble of 6th-century London. Read my full Telegraph review here
Posted in Fiction, Journalism
Tagged ancient rome, anglo saxon, book, dark ages, dark earth, fiction, historical, history, londinium, novel, rebecca stott, review, roman, telegraph
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Agatha Christie’s secret life as a romance novelist
Hiding under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, Christie wrote stories that reflected the pain of her private life. Read my full Telegraph article here
Posted in Fiction, Journalism
Tagged agatha christie, author, book, giants bread, Mary Westmacott, murder mystery, radio, radio 4, radio play, romance, secret, telegraph
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Thrown review
This plodding pottery club novel proves Sara Cox should stick to broadcasting. Read my full Telegraph review here
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Tagged book, novel, pottery, review, sara cox, telegraph, thrown
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James McArdle: ‘Boris Johnson missed the point of Macbeth’
The actor chats the Scottish play and the BBC’s Life After Life. Read my full The i Paper interview here
Posted in Fiction, Journalism, Theatre, TV
Tagged actor, adaptation, almeida theatre, bbc, book, boris johnson, drama, inews, interview, james mcardle, kate atkinson, life after life, london, macbeth, novel, play, Saoirse Ronan, shakespeare, the i paper, theatre, tv
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