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Based on Tim Minchin’s hugely popular musical adaptation of Roald Dahl’s classic novel, ‘Matilda the Musical’ tells the story of a...

‘The Thursday Murder Club’, published in September 2020, is the debut novel from producer and television presenter Richard Osman. Set in...

Madeline Miller’s debut novel, ‘The Song of Achilles’, was published in 2011, and is an account of the events described in Homer’s ‘The...

With music and lyrics by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, ‘Six’ is a lively and modern retelling of the lives of Henry VIII’s six wives, with...

Directed by Michael Grandage, and with music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, ‘Frozen the Musical’ finally opened...

Maggie O’Farrell’s eighth novel, published in 2020, is a fictional account of William Shakespeare’s family, and the events leading up to...

In ‘Luca’, Pixar Animation Studios’ 2021 animated coming-of-age feature, the story centres around Luca Paguro (voiced by Jacob Tremblay),...

With ‘No Time to Die’, the twenty-fifth film in the Bond series, now finally showing in UK cinemas, and 'Dr No' due to celebrate its...

“Houston to Harlem, look what’s begun! All for one and one for all!” With theatres closed for much of the past eighteen months due to the...

Thomas Hardy’s ‘Tess of the d’Urbervilles’ is a novel that I have put off reading for a long time, and I think a large part of the reason...

‘The Spy of Venice’ by Benet Brandreth The debut novel from barrister and rhetoric expert Benet Brandreth features none other than...

Craig Gillespie’s 2021 film ‘Cruella’ is a fresh and stylish (in more ways than one) take on an origins story for the villain with a...

‘Where the Crawdads Sing’, published in 2018, is the powerful debut novel by American author Delia Owens. The novel is set in the...

‘Raya and the Last Dragon’, the 59th animated feature in the Disney canon, follows the adventures of the headstrong protagonist, Raya, as...