5 new books to read this week This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Fairy Tale by Stephen King and Act Of Oblivion by Robert Harris. The Independent UK · Sep 7, 2022
Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris review – a master writer leads us on a 17th-century manhunt This rich and riotous novel, following the search for two of the men who signed Charles I’s death warrant, is also an important book for our own historical moment The Guardian - UK · Aug 30, 2022
Seven big-hitter books for autumn 2022, from Maggie O’Farrell to Cormac McCarthy It’s going to be a vintage autumn for fiction, with new novels from some of our finest writers. Here’s our essential guide The Guardian - UK · Aug 21, 2022
‘We want a queen who is like a parent’: Observer writers down the decades on the monarch’s reign A selection of this newspaper’s writing about the monarch since she became queen when, as the fashion editor wrote, ‘surprise is an undesired quality’ The Guardian - UK · Jun 5, 2022
Seven Glasgow street characters locals have loved from Harry the Hat to Hairy Mary From robot dancers to eccentric sellers in the Barras, there's been plenty of Glasgow characters that have captured the hearts of locals. Glasgow Live · Jun 4, 2022
Londoner’s Diary: Rory Stewart mulls a return to the political fray In today’s Diary: Rory Stewart ponders a return / Gary Lineker says more footballers will come out / Guilty Feminist on the ‘trans debate’ / Robert Harris couldn’t invent partygate Evening Standard · May 25, 2022
Meet the former Nazi rocket scientist who all too accurately saw the future As well as serving in the SS and a second act as a Nasa engineer, Wernher von Braun wrote a Martian sci-fi novel with a prescient twist… The Guardian - UK · May 14, 2022
Rising Damp and Home to Roost creator Eric Chappell dies aged 88 Eric Chappell was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, in September 1933 Wales Online · Apr 24, 2022
On my radar: Ed Balls’s cultural highlights The author and former Labour MP on steamy hospital dramas, Stanley Tucci’s charisma and his current favourite cookbook The Guardian - UK · Apr 2, 2022
The Fear Index: Adaptation struggles to live up to Robert Harris’s ingenious techno-thriller Josh Hartnett’s performance and the intriguing premise are enough to keep ‘The Fear Index’ rolling along, but the production sometimes lapses into cliché The Independent UK · Feb 10, 2022
TV tonight: Josh Hartnett’s capitalism-crushing thriller The Fear Index In Sky Atlantic’s new Robert Harris adaptation, a hedge funder has an algorithm that can destroy the world’s financial markets. Plus: First Dates and Forbidden Art. Here’s what to watch this evening The Guardian - UK · Feb 10, 2022
Munich by Robert Harris audiobook review – inside the backrooms of power David Rintoul is the authoritative narrator of this thriller about the negotiations between Neville Chamberlain and Hitler in the leadup to the second world war The Guardian - UK · Feb 4, 2022