Stories By Jem Bloomfield
Theatre
Theatre Review: Blood and Gifts at the National Theatre, London
October 12, 2026Pop music functions as a metonym for the cultural appropriations and misunderstandings which occur onstage. Is...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman
September 26, 2026The premise of Philip Pullman’s new book is brilliant. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History by David Aaronovitch
August 26, 2026Voodoo Histories isn’t an attempt to tell everyone to chill out and stop worrying about what...
Fiction Reviews
The Scarpetta Factor by Patricia Cornwell
August 5, 2026She’s developed an enjoyable way of beginning novels in the middle of a story, letting her...
Great Britain
Democracy: 1,000 Years in Pursuit of British Liberty by Peter Kellner
August 1, 2026Magna Carta, that legendary document which is so frequently referred to in discussions of freedom, and...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Waiting for the Etonians by Nick Cohen
July 26, 2026Nick Cohen is undoubtedly one of Britain’s finest living polemicists, and Waiting for the Etonians will...
Fiction Reviews
The Roar of the Butterflies by Reginald Hill
July 20, 2026Hill has written far fewer books about the black Luton lathe operator turned PI, but The...
Fiction Reviews
Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell
July 17, 2026There are flashes of wit – the description of the morgue as a “deconstruction site”, for...
Historical Fiction
Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell
July 17, 2026Much more serious, though, is the book’s take on the medieval world as a whole. Alongside...
Espionage
A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carré
July 9, 2026The violent and crude final pages of the book force us to scrutinise our feelings over...
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