Month: July 2015

Book: And Sometimes I Wonder About You Author: Walter Mosley Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Price: £20.00 (hardback) Review by Angela Howell Leonid McGill, Walter Mosley’s… Read more

Book: From Pasta to Pigfoot Author: Frances Mensah Williams Publisher: Jacaranda Books Price: £7.99 Review by Barbara Grant This delightful romantic adventure captures, with stark… Read more

Anastacia McCleskey is a familiar face on the Broadway circuit. At 19, soon after graduating from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, she landed a… Read more

At 24, Safia Elhillo is already a poetry veteran. She competed in slams from the age of 17, is published, teaches poetry at the International… Read more

Nick Makoha is no stranger to Words of Colour. When we interviewed him back in 2012 he was one of 10 new poets selected for… Read more

Mozart’s Don Giovanni – the legendary lothario: Dr Lisa Engelbrecht (musical director and accompanist), Amanda Meke (Zerlina), Goitsemang Lehobye (Donna Elvira), Johannes Slabbert (Don Giovanni),… Read more

Book: Butterfly Fish Author: Irenosen Okojie Publisher: Jacaranda Books Price: £12.99 Review by Yvvette Edwards Butterfly Fish, Irenosen Okojie’s debut novel, is an impressive gargantuan… Read more

Join three leading writers from the Middle East as they debate the limits of freedom of expression in the region and beyond. Sinan Antoon is an Iraqi… Read more

Join Ola Animashawun, creative director of Euphoric Ink as he introduces a pioneering new method for play development, Open Heart Theatre. By empowering the audience to be… Read more

Join the Barbican in celebrating the achievements of the Barbican Junior Poets, made up of students from four Waltham Forest primary schools, as they showcase work… Read more