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With a single dessert and just two glasses of wine our bill was kept in check - but the effort of doing so was not much fun
Babbo
Film
This is a film with beautiful performances and a visual style that urges you towards reflection
Bright Star
Theatre
Although the first half of Kwei-Armah’s production is pacy, funny and intelligent, the energy level then drops off
Seize The Day
I loved this film from start to finish. Take the girlfriend, tell your mum - I'd see it again tomorrow and will buy the dvd.
I saw this last night and can't remember the last time I was so moved in the theatre.
I have been to many of London's so-called best Japanese restaurants and none have been as good as the food that I've had at Aqua Kyoto
London,
This is a clever book. This is a fantastically clever book. Though this novel's jacket warns you that it 'is not about politics', the claim is as disingenuous as the book's own narrator who constantly invades the narrative, telling you whether he likes his characters or not, or that he is 'worried we are ignoring' this character or that one.
Ostensibly, the simple story of how Moshe and Nana fall in love and then invite bisexual Anjali into their lives and bed is anything but simple. It's the sort of book where Stendhal, de Sade and Bogart make regular appearances in the digressions.
And what is he digressing from? Usually it's graphic portrayals of sex. And yet miraculously, amid this cool, mannerly and distinctly authorial prose, he manages to evoke a sweet sadness for his characters, a genuine poignancy which strikes you - especially at the end - as a surprise.
Out of a doctoral inquisition into the strangeness of sex comes a funny and strangely insightful romance. A genuinely original book.
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