A whirlwind of celebrity, music and wanderlust – TENEMENT KID | BOOK REVIEW
A sweeping narrative of a working-class kid exploring feelings of wanderlust, courtesy of the first memoir by Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie.
A sweeping narrative of a working-class kid exploring feelings of wanderlust, courtesy of the first memoir by Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie.
Featuring a ghostly tale from Will Maclean, comedy and advice from Daniel Sloss, an adaption of a medieval fiction by Hammad Rind, rock'n'roll memoir by Dave Grohl and rock'n'roll biography by Mike Evans, concerning The Who.
Crime fiction from Will Dean, picture-heavy rock biography on Joy Division and New Order, musings on music by Kelefa Sanneh, the manifesto of Bernardine Evaristo and Rowan Jacobson's 'Truffle Hound'.
Experimental indie from Denmark's Efterklang, Arabic avant-garde from Montreal's Jerusalem In My Heart, gritpop from Tyneside's Sam Fender and two compilations of trad Irish folk and Italian horror scores.
Reviews of newly published titles by Ruth Ozeki, JR Moores, Annie Ernaux, Kate Bowler and Montserrat Roig (that one's newly translated from Catalan to English)
Punk rock tour diaries, Black Mirror-esque speculative fiction, thoughts on cultural and racial dividing lines in Britain, photographs from Troubles-era Northern Ireland, and a couple who encounter uncanny situations when they travel to adopt a child.
Created by homegrown developers Wales Interactive, Night Book is a technologically ingenious game/movie hybrid. Buzz’s Billie Ingram Sofokleous spoke to its director Alex Lightman and lead actor Julie Dray.
Billie Ingram Sofokleous tackles Night Book: a linear interactive movie with branching narratives, 15 endings, 220 scenes and a multitude of possibilities.
BBC One’s Ghosts has been lauded for its supernatural achievement of making a sitcom that appeals equally to adults and kids. The denizens of the haunted Button House have just returned to screens for a third series, before which seven of its cast took part in a virtual round table for an audience including Buzz’s Billie Ingram Sofokleous.
This week's books include a Southern Gothic novel by Bethany W Pope, a UK-Cypriot search for identity by Elif Shafak, and Séamas O’Reilly's bereavement memoir.
Ghosts’ return for a third season has been long-awaited, and opens with the events leading up to the beheading of Sir Humphrey Bone.
With more blockbusters in his quiver than you’ve had hot dinners, a new Stephen King novel is always big news. Billie Ingram Sofokleous gets into the dark heart of Billy Summers, the new King in question.