The Correspondent – Feature: Unreliable Memories of Footballing nuns
Beaten, brainwashed and coached to play football by Catholic nuns By Harry Mottram: Until I visited a museum where there…
The Correspondent. Book Review: Kazuo Ishiguro’s brilliantly clear and simple prose brings to life artificial humanoid Klara in a futuristic world of genetically enhanced children
Apr 26, 2025 Book Review: Klara And The Sun. Some of the reviews of Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2021 novel Klara and the…
Theatre Preview: Clara faces the Rat Queen in a production this Christmas of The Nutcracker at Taunton Brewhouse Theatre
From Taunton Brewhouse: is delighted to reveal that rehearsals are now in full swing for this year’s Christmas production of The…
Book Review: the friendship of two boys (and their VERY different mums) in Rose Tremain’s The Gustav Sonata in a story that reflects Switzerland’s wartime existential crisis as the Nazis threaten invasion
Book Review: The Gustav Sonata. By Rose Tremain. If two boys and their mothers can represent wartime Switzerland, then Rose…
The Correspondent Book Review: David Sedaris’s idiosyncratic world of thoughtless fathers, rude friends of friends and people who don’t pack until the removal men arrive
Book Review: Me Talk Pretty One Day. David Sedaris A friend of a friend should be beaten to death for…
Feature: Confessions of the editor of Beautiful Brides Magazine
Jan 2, 2025 By Harry Mottram: The features editor of the Western Daily Press asked if I could write a feature on wedding…
Feature: the night a drunk walked into our house and fell asleep and we had to call the police
The Correspondent: the weird night a stranger walked into our house and went to sleep in my our son’s bed…