Photo by Daniela Denyer Malo The Wedding People by Alison Espach, a fiction novel published in 2024, has become increasingly popular in reader circles this year and with good reason too. Marketed as a chick-lit romance, readers expect a funny, light-hearted, whirlwind romance type of book, yet what awaits within the pages is so much more. Beginning with an unexpected premise, our main character’s first proper interaction reveals the most unexpected backstory and motivations –

Photo by Umair Dingmar on Unsplash (licensed under the Unsplash licence) In the summer of 2025, the two-part documentary ‘The Hunt for Shannon Matthews’ (Ben Sheldon, 2025) was released – all about the staged kidnapping that put my hometown of Dewsbury, West Yorkshire on the map. I watched it, of course. My whole family did. I even made my boyfriend – privately educated and capable of pronouncing his t’s – watch it too. A sort of “look at this crazy place I call home” exercis

Photo by Daniela Denyer Malo The Fantasia Orchestra – from Mahler to Manhattan, has arrived in London this week in full force and will be touring the UK for the coming months. Directed by Tom Fetherstonhaugh, the Fantasia Orchestra takes the audience on an out-of-this-world journey that transports you from the city centre to every magical and fantastical setting you can imagine. For this special show, Niamh O’Sullivan, the Irish mezzo-soprano, joins the orchestra and manages

Photo by Daniela Denyer Malo It is a rare thing, to find such talented actors in a production with such a terrible script as this one. Dark of the Moon is the musical currently playing in the Charing Cross Theatre and if the AI-looking poster isn’t enough to deter you from attending, the first song will make it all worth it… right up to the point where the ‘witches’ start singing. Dark of the Moon is a supernatural musical set in the Appalachian Mountains, where the human wor

You can’t make it too perfect or mechanical, or else it’ll be too obvious that it’s fake. The art of tricking someone into thinking your replica food is real is so difficult, but when someone gives you that reaction, it’s incredibly rewarding.