Results tagged “spiral notebook”
BOOK
Hollywood Moon by Joseph Wambaugh
Quercus, £17.99
2/5
IN A NUTSHELL
Cops on the Hollywood beat don't come face to face with your average crim, as this eccentric procedural reveals.
BOOK
Little Hands Clapping, by Dan Rhodes
Canongate, £10.99
4/5
IN A NUTSHELL
Dan Rhodes presents a modern grim fairytale that takes the reader to a blackly comic world peopled by eccentrics, romantics and monsters.
BOOK
The Unnamed, by Joshua Ferris
Viking, £12.99
3/5
IN A NUTSHELL
Author's follow-up to an impressive debut offers an ambling narrative.
DVD
Nurse Jackie (15)
Series One, £24.99
4/5
IN A NUTSHELL
Edie Falco creates a Florence Nightingale for the new millennium with her flawed but lovable New York nurse.
EXHIBITION
Henry Moore
Tate Britain
4/5
IN A NUTSHELL
In the most important exhibition of the sculptor's work since his death, visitors are invited to re-appraise the genius.
STAGE
Neil LaBute trilogy
Greenwich Theatre
4/5
IN A NUTSHELL
With The Furies linked to Helter Skelter and Land Of The Dead, Dialogue Productions launches a pincer movement against the human heart.
BOOK
London's Docklands, by Fiona Rule
Ian Allan Publishing, £19.99
3/5
IN A NUTSHELL
The history of the docks from Romans era to their decline at the tail-end of the last century
STAGE
Two Women
Theatre Royal Stratford East
3/5
IN A NUTSHELL
In a bruising interpretation of a Martina Cole novel, gutsy East End housewife Sue Dalston faces a life in jail for murdering her abusive husband.
BOOK
The Still Point, by Amy Sackville
Portobello Books
3/5
IN A NUTSHELL
Julia picks over the diaries of her illustrious ancestor while examining the state of her marriage.
ART
The Real Van Gogh: The Artist And His Letters
Royal Academy Of Arts
5/5
IN A NUTSHELL
Van Gogh gets to explain himself and his paintings via his prodigious correspondence.
BOOK
The Secret History Of Georgian London
by Dan Cruickshank
Random House, £25
IN A NUTSHELL
The TV historian assesses how the wages of sin percolated through the London economy
FILM
Up In The Air (15)
4/5
IN A NUTSHELL
Jason Reitman directs George Clooney in a story about a corporate hatchet man whose jetset lifestyle is destabilised by two women.
BOOK
Retromancer, by Robert Rankin
Gollancz, £14.99
3/5
IN A NUTSHELL
More far fetched fiction from the prodigious inventor of curious anomalies and their bonkers consequences.
BOOK
Life Ascending, by Nick Lane
Profile, £9.99
4/5
IN A NUTSHELL
A series of eye-opening essays details the majesty and complexity of the 10 great inventions of evolution.
STAGE
Peter Pan, Meridian Gardens, The O2
3/5
IN A NUTSHELL
The family favourite is brought bang up to date with hi-tech wizardry that takes you on the same high-flying journey as the puck-ish hero.
STAGE
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Novello Theatre
4/5
IN A NUTSHELL
Debbie Allen updates Tennessee Williams' 1955 tale of a Southern family confronting secrets and lies over the course of Big Daddy's 65th birthday.
STAGE
Nation
Olivier, National Theatre
3/5
IN A NUTSHELL
In Mark Ravenhill's action-packed adaptation of Terry Pratchett's novel two teenagers meet on a storm-ravaged island and must learn to survive.
BOOK
Ordinary Thunderstorms, by William Boyd
Bloomsbury, £11.99
4/5
IN A NUTSHELL
Boyd explores the nature of identity in this thriller about a man hidden in plain sight on the streets of London.
STAGE
I Found My Horn
Hampstead Theatre
3/5
IN A NUTSHELL
Jonathan Guy Lewis brings to life Jasper Rees's comic memoir about his epic wrestle with the orchestra's toughest instrument.
BOOK
The Invention Of Air, by Steven Johnson
Penguin, £9.99
3/5
IN A NUTSHELL
Steven Johnson examines the life of Enlightenment genius Joseph Priestley, an unassuming man with a vast impact.
