Harry Potter author JK Rowling will publish new children’s fairy tale The Ickabog FREE online from today one chapter at a time after keeping it hidden in her attic for 10 years Fans of JK Rowling can expect new material coming their way very soon The 54-year-old wrote The Ickabog shortly after her great Harry … Read more
Never before has an unelected Government adviser been so powerful – and divisive. The Prime Minister’s right-hand man and self-proclaimed architect of Brexit, Dominic Cummings, has already been depicted in a TV film by Benedict Cumberbatch and was the subject of a BBC documentary this year. He has seemed to revel in his reputation as … Read more
What’s The Matter With Tony Slattery? Thursday, BBC2 Rating: The Big Flower Fight Netflix Rating: This week a new Netflix show that mercilessly plunders the Bake Off/Sewing Bee format, and a documentary on the comedian Tony Slattery, who was ubiquitous in the late 1980s and early 1990s before suddenly disappearing from view. And while I’m … Read more
Season three of the show saw even more examples of the Gilead residents being treated horrifically; namely, when the handmaids were being hung and shot in public, and with June (played by Elisabeth Moss) watching. However, the wives and mistresses of the Commanders in Gilead have remained safe throughout the show because they were set … Read more
In the meantime, devoted viewers have been taking a look back at previous episodes for hints to what’s to come in season four. One of the most intriguing clues came in the form of a map released as part of the season two finale, The Word. This map of the United States confirms the territories … Read more
It was late at night when we stopped at a platform with a big sign that read ‘Auschwitz’. The name meant nothing to me. Even before the train doors opened, I heard bellowing and cursing in German and Polish. Outside, I could see, among the SS guards, a large number of strange creatures with shaved … Read more
There was no point in pretending that he had the slightest chance of winning the pool now – not unless the goddam ship started to go backwards. They’d have to put her in reverse and go full speed astern and keep right on going if he was to have any chance of winning it now. … Read more
Hulu announced that The Handmaid’s Tale, currently filming its fourth season, will halt production as a result of the coronavirus pandemic on Sunday. The series joins a long list of productions that have opted to hit pause this week after president Donald Trump declared the virus a ‘national emergency’ on Friday. Season four of the acclaimed … Read more
Here We Are Graham Swift Scribner £14.99 Rating: Way back in 1983, Graham Swift wrote the novel – Waterland – that made him famous, or at least almost famous, as he is the Invisible Man of English Letters, rarely signing books at literary festivals or holding forth on Newsnight. Waterland was about the way human … Read more
It’s the ultimate home luxury: your very own dressing room. We asked interior designer Kelly Hoppen and gallerist India Rose James for a peek inside their dreamy dressing spaces