Double or Nothing review - James Bond reboot is witty and fast-paced
BOND is Black? Bond is Bi-? Bond is a Babe? No, Bond has buggered off somewhere, he’s missing, and a new batch of double-0’s that tick all the…
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BOND is Black? Bond is Bi-? Bond is a Babe? No, Bond has buggered off somewhere, he’s missing, and a new batch of double-0’s that tick all the…
Today marks the 60th anniversary of the first James Bond film, which transformed Ian Fleming's hero from a humourless brute to an icon of Britishness.
In the world of books, a modern classic is an altogether more slippery thing than a classic: it must walk a line between freshness and durability; reflect the current age but hope to outlast it. For individual publishers, given many 20th-century writers are still in copyright, a modern classics list will necessarily be partial. However,
28 Jul 2021 This week, we caught up with freelance travel writer and author of Heading South: Far North Queensland to Western Australia by Rail, Tim Richards, to find out how he’s been faring amid the COVID-19 pandemic. What are you reading? Lotharingia, a centuries-long history of the countries wedged between France and Germany. It’s a detailed and occasionally very funny mix of history and travel memoir by British author Simon Winder. What are you watching? I’ve just finished watching Solos on Amazon Prime, a fascinating series of...