Brighton Belle

Given that it boasts a chic, Glenlivet-supping heroine ostensibly named after one of the architects of the post-war British welfare state, it is not surprising that Sara Sheridan’s Brighton Belle is difficult to pin down in any satisfactory way. Sheridan’s new period mystery, the first of the Mirabelle Bevan series, demonstrates that the boundaries between Read More

The Big Music

What is a story? The question broadly resembles parallel queries in the arts and sciences. In Geneva, the Large Hadron Collider recently glimpsed a particle which, expressing a certain field, provides a quality called mass to other, fundamental particles. At Liverpool Tate, you can currently see work by Turner, Monet and Twombly; and can wonder Read More