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In memory of the dear old TV test card Charlotte Gneuss, the literary superstar caught up in the culture wars The double life of Yeah baby, yeah! A riveting new history of the groovy but turbulent Sixties ON THE COVER Hokusai’s...
Younger readers will not know about the blizzard of static “snow” that used to fill the screens of TVs in the nights before digital. When an analogue set was tuned to an off-air channel, the antenna and receiver had nothing structured to lock on...
In memory of the dear old TV test card Charlotte Gneuss, the literary superstar caught up in the culture wars The double life of Yeah baby, yeah! A riveting new history of the groovy but turbulent Sixties ON THE COVER Hokusai’s...
It was once a favourite Western cliché about Japan that tourists would descend on London or Paris, cameras hung from their necks, to snap everything in sight. Today, by contrast, a popular theme on Japanese television and social media is...
Charlotte Gneuss was hiking in the Saxon-Switzerland mountains when her publisher rang. It was September 14 2023, and he told her he had bad news. He could see, via a preview subscription to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, that a...
Over the past couple of years, while journeying through the canon of wartime and post-war British novels, I have delved into the works of Nigel Balchin, and written about him here before. He produced two of the greatest novels of the war –...
