Dr Kara McKechnie, July 2020 ‘Alan Bennett is trending on Twitter’ is a sentence I thought I would never say. The iconic Talking Heads monologues were created for the BBC in 1988 and 1998... READ MORE
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Dr Kara McKechnie, July 2020 ‘Alan Bennett is trending on Twitter’ is a sentence I thought I would never say. The iconic Talking Heads monologues were created for the BBC in 1988 and 1998... READ MORE
How would you like someone who has read your book to sum it up in one sentence? This was a fascinating yet compelling exploration of my favourite television genre; I had no idea how central the police... READ MORE
Trick or treat! Things are getting seriously spooky with these 13 Gothic books to keep you up at night this Halloween. Scroll down… if you dare! Clive Barker: Dark imaginer Edited by... READ MORE
We hope you enjoy this first post in our new blog series ’10 books for…’ Joss Whedon By Matthew Pateman This book assesses Joss Whedon’s contribution to US television and popular... READ MORE
What book in this field has inspired you the most? There have been so many trail blazers but among the ones I return to most are Nikki Stafford’s Bite Me and Once Bitten – brilliant examples of... READ MORE
What book in this field has inspired you the most? I was inspired by two authors who have previously written about Clive Barker – Linda Badley and Gary Hoppenstand. Their works on Barker have proven... READ MORE
By Joseph Oldham Over the first two years of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party, several commentators noted fascinating parallels with an iconic fictional account of a Labour government.... READ MORE