Scottish comedian and actor Janey Godley is currently touring with a typically unsparing title, the Not Dead Yet tour. This is because she’s been battling cancer. It’s this sense of looking life (and death) directly in the eye that permeates throughout her comedy career and in this, her memoir, first published in 2005. Born intoContinue reading “Book Review: Janey Godley – Handstands In The Dark”
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We Need To Talk About Lisa
I watched Girl, Interrupted for about the fifth time the other evening, having seen Leah Shelton’s brilliant show Batshit. (My review of it is up on Fest magazine). I was wondering if it still held up, having not watched for a while. It’s good, if flawed : James Mangold directs brilliantly, but the narration andContinue reading “We Need To Talk About Lisa”
Book Review: Lemn Sissay- My Name Is Why
British Ethiopian poet and performer Lemn Sissay writes prose in the same way that he speaks: succinctly, openly and with no time for bullshit. It’s this no -nonsense approach that he brings to his devastating memoir, My Name Is Why. For the first twelve years of his life, he had lived with a Christian familyContinue reading “Book Review: Lemn Sissay- My Name Is Why”
Hit The North 