The 39 Steps

This play came to the York Theatre Royal via the West End and Broadway, and a few other places. It won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy and garnered a host of positive critical reviews:
“Rollicking fun” The Times
“Dizzyingly entertaining” The Telegraph
“A joyous version of the Hitchcock classic” Sunday Times
So we were expecting [...]



The paperback of John Barlow’s novel, Intoxicated, is published today. He’s put together a forty-five second video to help his publisher’s marketing department. The novel, set in Yorkshire, is about cocaine, madness and soft drinks in the late 19th century.

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Presque vu XII

Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children has been banned in Malaysia. It joins Michel Houellebecq’s Atomised, Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues and a host of other texts which have been proscribed by:
… some barely literate little Napoleon - to borrow Pak Lah’s term - sitting behind a KDN desk in Johor Bahru, (who) has decided that the [...]






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