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Emily Taaffe as Daphne (left) puts a grass skirt over her crinoline and learns to enjoy life with Mau (centre), played by Gary Carr, in Nation at the National Theatre Photo: JOHAN PERSSON The great Terry Pratchett, best known...
With a good deal of theatrical fare designed for family consumption at Christmas, you can confidently check your brains in at the cloakroom and sit back expecting a certain end-of-term laxity on the artistic front. But not at...
book and the first to really develop the character of Death, going from the sadistic murderer of the earlier books to the complex sympathetic-to-humans figure who does his Duty. However, it did build upon themes raised in a...
In the week that Nation - Mark Ravenhill’s adaptation of the Terry Pratchett novel - opens at the National Theatre, it’s intriguing to come across a story which, albeit presented on a far, far smaller scale, hits on some of the...
Broadcasters are taking the safe option by commissioning literary adaptations that guarantee an audience "In these difficult times there's a little more security in adapting a book than in commissioning an original script,"...
The Dual GPS Navigation & Battery Cradle for iPod touch... For show notes visit the TWiT Wiki . Today's Audible Pick: Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. For more details and a chance to win the Mad Magazine "What...
I'll preface this by saying that I'm more of a "big picture" developer. I'm looking to take an array, e.g.: and create an integer inside of a different multi-dimensional array, whose value would, when hard-coded, be assigned...
Reviews. How hard can they be? Quite difficult, actually, which is why I do my own version of the things, carefully avoiding a lot of intelligent musings on a variety of literary stuff. In short, I don’t know how, so I cheat....
This past year or two I've been revisiting what you might call my cultural roots. Because I was distracted almost daily by treatment for a wounded foot and unable to work much, I began re-reading the PG Wodehouse, Edgar Rice...
Readers' responses to The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai Kiran Desai was not the first novelist who has come to speak to the Guardian book club and confessed to having second thoughts about the ending of her novel. Several...
