The Queen, who spent a night in hospital last week, will not now be attending COP26. It was hoped that Pope Francis would attend but
Category: BOOK REVIEWS
FILMS: Brian Cox on Succession’s success: ‘I’ve lost the anonymity I had for more than 50 years’
Brian Cox with his lovely wife Nicole Ansari and Scottish actor Bill Paterson at the Edinburgh Book Festival. Picture by Bill Heaney
BOOKS: A revealing look inside the fascinating but damaged life of Shane MacGowan
Richard Balls’ brilliant new biography, A Furious Devotion: The Authorised Story Of Shane MacGowan, blows away some of the myths around Ireland’s greatest songwriter Review
BOOKS: The Magician by Colm Tóibín review – a difficult Mann to know
Dramatisation of Thomas Mann’s private and public life never convinces as biography or fiction By Anthony Cummins in The Guardian The German writer Thomas Mann
BOOKS: CORRUPT CARDINAL KEITH O’BRIEN CATALYST FOR CRISIS IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
Labyrinthine corruption REVIEW BY JAMES LAWLOR This powerful and timely book revisits the events surrounding the disgrace of Keith O’Brien, former Cardinal Archbishop of St
BOOKS: GLASGOW’S MAN OF LETTERS
Author and ex-Herald Diary writer Tom Shields shows us his Glasgow Sharing a joke with Kathleen, the barmaid at Wintergills. By Tom Shields My family