Mac DeMarco – Ulster Hall – Live Review – 31/08/26 by Cathy Brown Mac DeMarco, Ulster Hall, Belfast, 31 August 2026 Mac DeMarco has spent much of his career cultivating a reputati…

Back in 2023, I read and loved Claire Kilroy’s Soldier Sailor, a superb novel in which ‘Soldier’, a married woman in the early months of motherhood, experiences a loss of identity, an erasure of he…

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However determined I am to make progress with my 20 Books of Summer stack, there’s always room for a few distractions. July proved to be one of those months, with four books finding their way…

The title story in Liliana Colanzi’s newly translated (by Chris Andrews) collection You Glow in the Dark is based on a real event when a radiotherapy source was taken from an abandoned hospital lea…

In ancient Sicily two jobless young potters embark on an audacious scheme to stage a production of Greek tragedies in a quarry. The pair have oodles of passion and enthusiasm but little common sense. They don't have two drachmas to rub together. And they completely lack experience of the theatrical world. What could possibly go wrong? Rather a lot as it turns out because they completely misjudge how the authorities and citizens of Syracuse will react to their scheme.

The broadcaster reveals she has smouldering myeloma, which can develop into a type of blood cancer.

Apple TV has renewed Widow's Bay for Season 2 and signed its creator and showrunner Katie Dippold to a multiyear deal.