As a celebration for surviving the hell-week(s) I've been through, and to hold you over until the Chapter 07 Christmas special of Guile & Guilt, have some character mood boards that literally NO ONE asked for. ♥️
Our next character is Hamish Hamilton, or Ham-Ham behind his back. Professor, eco-warrior, and Pidge's one true love. He's one classy dude.
Grammy and Academy Award Winner H.E.R. to Star as Belle in ABC’s "Beauty and the Beast" 30th Anniversary Special
Grammy and Academy Award Winner H.E.R. to Star as Belle in ABC’s “Beauty and the Beast” 30th Anniversary Special
According to Variety.com, award-winning musical artist H.E.R. will play Belle in ABC’s upcoming hybrid special celebrating the 30th anniversary of Disney‘s animated musical classic Beauty and the Beast.
H.E.R. is a five-time Grammy Award winner, including last year’s Song of the Year Grammy for “I Can’t Breathe” inspired by George Floyd, from her 2021 album Back of My Mind.
In 2021, H.E.R. also…
Zadie Smith never wanted to write a historical novel, at a certain point however she could no longer postpone writing The Fraud, a novel about Victorian / Regency England in which several characters are shown to be frauds in their own different ways.
Main character is Mrs Touchet, a widow who has come to live with a cousin by marriage, writer William Ainsworth. She comes to the family’s rescue…
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Ziyad Saadi‘s THREE PARTIES, a tragicomedy pitched as inspired by Virginia Woolf’s MRS. DALLOWAY, in which a gay Palestinian refugee in modern Detroit prepares to throw himself a birthday party that, unbeknownst to the guests, will also double as his coming out party, amid an escalating torrent of romantic, professional, and familial surprises, to David Ross at Hamish Hamilton…
Hannah Waddingham'Home for Christmas' a holiday special featuring 'Ted Lasso' pals. Ring in the festive season with Emmy®-winning star Hannah Waddingham as she welcomes special guests for a musical extravaganza at the London Coliseum.
The holiday special is directed by BAFTA Award winner Hamish Hamilton (Oscars, Grammys, Super Bowl halftime show, London Olympics opening and closing ceremonies).
Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas is set to debut globally on November 22 on Apple TV+, along with a companion album launching on the same date.
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Hannah Waddingham & TED LASSO Co-Star Phil Dunster Perform 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas'
Waddingham is joined by other special guests including Leslie Odom Jr., Luke Evans, Sam Ryder and some of her pals from “Ted Lasso”.
@pinkblizzardgladiator I hope you will like to watch this show she is in now. I have enjoyed the shows she has been in.
As a celebration for surviving the hell-week(s) I've been through, and to hold you over until the Chapter 07 Christmas special of Guile & Guilt, have some character mood boards that literally NO ONE asked for. ♥️
Our favorite bestie, Pidge! She's getting married to Professor Hamish Hamilton, and it is quite the shindig. Such a lovable librarian, with such a cute brother...
The Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2024 Longlist is here!
I'm sure that long time readers of my blog or followers of my Instagram will know that I have been following the Women's Prize for Fiction very closely for the last few years. I was really excited to discover that they were launching a sister prize celebrating non-fiction written by women (because it definitely tends to get lost in the very male-dominant sphere that is non-fiction). I am not a big non-fiction reader but as I get older, I have found myself becoming more interested in it. I think I'll always be a much bigger fiction reader but there are some genres within non-fiction that I am fascinated by, so it made sense for me to take a look at what the inaugural Women's Prize for Non-Fiction longlist had to offer.
The Women's Prize for Non-Fiction is open to non-fiction books written by women in English and published between 1st April 2023 and 31st March 2024. I believe it follows the same rules as the Fiction prize, in that books have to follow a narrative and that translated books are not eligible.
So, here are the 16 books on the first ever Women's Prize for Non-Fiction longlist!
Intervals by Marianne Brooker.
Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions on 28th February 2024.
Thunderclap by Laura Cumming.
Published by Chatto & Windus on 6th July 2023.
Shadows at Noon by Joya Chatterji.
Published by Bodley Head on 13th July 2023.
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder.
Published by Viking on 17th August 2023.
Matrescence by Lucy Jones.
Published by Allen Lane on 22nd June 2023.
How To Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair.
Published by 4th Estate on 3rd October 2023.
Some People Need Killing by Patricia Evangelista.
Published by Grove Press on 2nd November 2023.
Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI by Madhumita Murgia.
Published by Picador on 28th March 2024.
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon.
Published by Hutchinson Heinemann on 12th October 2023.
The Britannias: An Island Quest by Alice Albinia.
Published by Allen Lane on 19th October 2023.
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, A Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles.
Published by Profile Books on 13th July 2023.
The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary by Sarah Ogilvie.
Published by Chatto & Windus on 7th September 2023.
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein.
Published by Allen Lane on 12th September 2023.
Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts and the Death of Freedom by Grace Blakeley.
Published by Bloomsbury on 14th March 2024.
A Flat Place by Noreen Masud.
Published by Hamish Hamilton on 27th April 2023.
Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power by Leah Redmond Chang.
Published by Bloomsbury on 11th May 2023.
So, there's the longlist. There is a good mixture in terms of theme and I'm sure a lot of people will be excited about that. I'm afraid that for me, I'm really not very interested in many of them. I have copies of Eve and Some People Need Killing, so I'll be reading them. I am also interested in Doppelganger and Wifedom but they're both very expensive in all formats at the moment, so I'll see if I can get library copies. However, almost all of the others just aren't speaking to me!
The shortlist will be announced on 27th March and the winner will be announced on 13th June, which is the same date as the winner of the Fiction Prize. So, I imagine the award ceremony will be a very big celebration of women's writing, which is always an exciting event.
What do you think of the longlist? Will you be reading any? Have you read any? Should I pick up any that I don't think I'm interested in? Let me know!
A new stunning novel by the incredible Ali Smith. Curfew curlew all of a sudden makes unexpected sense.
May I confess that I kind of struggled with this Ali Smith? I was impressed, as usual, by her magnificent use of the English language, I could not figure out however what she tried to convey in Companion Piece …? I needed the Guardian’s review in order to figure out the novel. And then things started coming together.
Companion Piece is not meant for those who want to rush through their novels,…