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James Morrison concert @ UEA LCR
Although a later generation of guitar-playing singer-songwriters, notably Ed Sheeran and George Ezra, are now taking much of the limelight, James Morrison showed with the opening show of his 2019…
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Gina Miller at the UEA Literary Festival
Some see Gina Miller as a heroine who has battled tirelessly – despite much abuse – to uphold due process in what they regard as the disaster of Britain’s exit…
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Club Tropicana The Musical
The eighties are now rightly celebrated for the countless memorable pop hits that they left the world to enjoy, and these songs are just what the new touring production Club…
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Marlon James at the UEA Literary Festival
Marlon James may be a winner of the Man Booker Prize, thanks to his 2014 novel A Brief History of Seven Killings, but he insists that he does not look…
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Tessa Hadley at UEA Literary Festival
Tessa Hadley’s life as a published writer came relatively late, as she was in her mid forties by the time, in 2002, that she published her first novel. She has…
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Somerleyton Hall & Gardens Review
Several years ago we visited Fritton Lake for a fun afternoon with the kids, and on the way home we swung by Somerleyton Hall to take a few pictures and…
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Henry Marsh at UEA Literary Festival
The neurosurgeon Henry Marsh has proved to be as much of a dab hand with a pen as he is with a scalpel. His first memoir of his life in…
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A Walk Around Swardeston Common
The small village of Swardeston lies four miles to the south of Norwich, and is the birthplace of Edith Cavell and the village is locally known for having a successful…
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Claire Tomalin @ UEA Literary Festival
Claire Tomalin has forged an impressive reputation writing biographies of some of Britain’s most distinguished literary figures, among them the novelists Charles Dickens, Jane Austen and Thomas Hardy, and the…
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Christopher Andrew at UEA Literary Festival
Intelligence, according to the historian and security services specialist Christopher Andrew, suffers more from short termism than any other line of work. Indeed, speaking at the UEA Literary Festival, the…
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Looking for egg-stra chocolate!
Egg-stra! Egg-stra! Eat All About It! As if my boys didn’t get enough chocolate and misshapen-animal confectionery for Easter, my arm got twisted to go on an Easter Egg Hunt.…
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