May 2019

5***** 22 May 2019 Kazuo Ishiguro’s 1989 Booker Prize winning novel, ‘The Remains of the Day’ created a real buzz when it was first published – I was a bookseller at the time – but it was most definitely not for everyone. The slow burning tale of a grand house butler relating his own story […]

5***** 6 May 2019 When the story of ‘Little Orphan Annie’, the 1920’s comic strip, first made it onto the stage as a musical in 1977, it was an instant success. It has found huge popularity on the professional and amateur stages and often regarded as the female ‘Oliver!’ – an antidote to all those