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Marion Wagschal: An Extraordinary Artist
Marion Wagschal's new show at Canada House is her first ever show in the UK. Relatively unknown outside of North America, the latest exhibition at Canada house is of paintings created between 1980 and...
View ArticleFive Reasons to Self-Publish
If you've written a book, chances are you have at least considered self-publishing. There are many excellent reasons to self-publish, even if you have the chance to publish traditionally. Where...
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Rock Survivor Eric Burdon Still Digs That Girl
After all the rock musicians who have passed away the past five or six weeks, making you almost loathe to check Facebook in the morning, it's time to celebrate those who are still kicking and...
View Article13 Painful Realities of a Writer's Life
I don't think this post needs an introduction. People wouldn't read it anyway. They always skip down to the numbers. Don't think I don't know this. If you've read this far, I'm impressed. As a writer,...
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Review: Coco Chanel: The Illustrated World of a Fashion Icon - Megan Hess
"Few people in the history of fashion can claim the influence of Coco Chanel," writes Megan Hess in the introduction to her book. It is difficult to appreciate just how groundbreaking the French...
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Android in La La Land - A Film That Reminds Me to Smile
The music of Gary Numan holds a special place in my heart. It was the sound track of my teenage years, saw me through my spinal injury and made me want to set off on the path to becoming a musician...
View ArticleFrom the Page to the Screen - Why Some Books Make Great Films
Excitement as well as media interest is building again as we wait to discover which of the last year's clutch of movies will be recognised at the forthcoming 88th Academy Awards. It's interesting to...
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The Biggest Films of 2015 According to One Star Amazon Reviews
2015 was brimming with blockbuster swag. It was the year that saw blockbusters finally rise above their critics, with Pixar's script mastery in Inside Out to George Miller's action-art in Mad Max: Fury...
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Raising the Curtain on West End and Broadway
I remember when visiting London as a child, one of our must-see destinations was the London Theatre Museum in Covent Garden. So when it sadly closed its doors in 2007, I was overjoyed to see it come...
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Science and Myth: The North West Premiere of 'Icarus at the Edge of Time'
There are some great things happening in Manchester right now. Recently I went to see Barbarians: A Trilogy, a new piece by choreographer, Hofesh Shechter. It was a slick and introspective piece of...
View ArticleWhat Nobody Tells You About Your Book Being Published
It's been a month since my debut novel Try Not to Breathe came out in the UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand, and another couple of weeks before it comes out in America and then...
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and (Almost) Love Pink Floyd
For someone who spends his life either listening to or making music, it's convenient that I like quite a lot of it. I have my areas of natural allegiance - indie/alternative rock and early-80s pop to...
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Oscars 2016: Nine Amazing Ways Nominees Could Change the World With Their...
Vibrators. Vampire breast lifts. Walking tours of Japan. The goody bags for this year's Oscars attendees are insanely amazing. Like, worth $200,000 amazing. We're talking cars, first class holidays and...
View Article'The Big Short'
Last weekend I watched, and loved, The Big Short, a film based on the book of the same name by Michael Lewis, which describes a group of disparate outsiders who each spotted the colossal financial...
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Fascinating Leonardo da Vinci Exhibition Opens at Science Museum
Pioneer. Polymath. Genius. Leonardo's reputation is so profound that it has become hard to separate the man from the myth. Well, this major new exhibition at the Science Museum, Leonardo da Vinci: the...
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Supporting the Prince's Trust with Dynamo and Graham & Brown
Wallpaper can enhance and transform a room, and I love how instantly and effectively it can do this. It can create magic in a room through its design and placement, and with my wallpaper designs for...
View ArticleI'm One of the Real Helen Titcheners - And Refuge Saved My Life
The internet has done something brilliant this past week. Almost £50,000 has been raised for the domestic violence charity Refuge in just seven days as a result of a JustGiving page set up in aid of a...
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Valentine's Day - Top Things to Do In and Around London
I know I'm not alone when I say I loathe Valentine's Day. It brings back bittersweet memories of my teenage days at boarding school. If you had an admirer, single red roses would appear, like magic, at...
View ArticleBroadcasting Press Guild Awards: Why in the Age Of Netflix, TV Has Still Got...
'Netflix and chill' may have been transformed into a euphemism for something altogether more physical, but the phrase's origins do tell a story for telly enthusiasts like me. I won't bore you with...
View ArticleAdmitting to Being a Belieber at 35!
So here it comes, a proud admission that I'm a little bit in love with Justin Bieber. Yep you read that right, and you know what, there's a lot of us out there so let's unite! It's time to stop...
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