Actor Graeme Dallas will bring the story of the courageous minister to life in a special “homecoming” performance of the play, the Tartan Pimpernel.
Category: BOOK REVIEWS
BOOKS: ANNA SMITH’S NEW CRIME THRILLER
Anna Smith – And here it is! End Game just arrived in the post! I never get tired of opening my new book for the first time. Delighted with the striking jacket. Thanks Quercus Books! Out on February 6, in hardback and e-books. On offer for just £3.99 on Amazon!
COUNCIL HAS NO WAY OF KNOWING IF £6 MILLION GAMBLE COMES OFF
But this report by Audit Scotland warns the plans lack provisions to measure performance. It found many deals may have already missed opportunities to meet national targets due to a lack of measures to track progress.
GREAT YEAR OF CELEBRATION FOR PEOPLE’S FRIEND
THE world’s longest-running weekly women’s magazine’s 150th anniversary is ending on a high – after a year of celebrations.
ROW OVER MARRIAGE PLANS FOR CATHOLIC PRIESTS
In a new book From the Depths of Our Hearts,written with conservative Cardinal Robert Sarah, the former pope forcefully defends mandatory celibacy for priests in what appears to be a strategically timed interjection aimed at putting pressure on Pope Francis not to change the church’s centuries-old rule on celibacy for priests.
BOOKS: THE PREACHER’S WIFE
Do women exercise more power when they stay in their own female spheres, or when they try to compete on an equal level with men in worlds constructed by and for men? This highly readable and absorbing book is an extended reflection on what it means to be female and famous and religious in the United States of America over the past forty or so years.