JUDITH MacCafferty wrote her first novel at the age of 10 but had to wait more than 50 years before she saw her first book published. 

THIS is the first novel by Alan Clark – but not that late old aristocratic lecher and diary writer who wrote erotically about Mrs Thatcher’s backside when he sat behind her on the Treas

A THREE-part  play to help raise funds for the humanitarian disaster in Somalia is due to be performed on Saturday at Kings Place, the performing arts venue in York Way.

THE Pleasance Theatre plays host to the fifth annual Cloud Dance Festival – Firefly – with another eclectic bill.

GIVEN that it is half a millennium since these sacred works were produced they present quite a jigsaw puzzle.

EVERY museum has its treasures locked away from public view for a variety of reasons. And the Hampstead Museum in Grade-I listed Burgh House, Hampstead, is no different.

And it’s goodbye from Clare as she bows out to write her memoirs

Main Image: 

Directed by Eric Lartigau
Certificate 15

Rating: 5 Out Of 5 Stars

Main Image: 

Directed by John Lasseter
Certificate U

Rating: 4 Out Of 5 Stars

One Life
Directed by Michael Gunton and Martha Holmes
Certificate: PG

Rating: 4 Out Of 5 Stars

WHAT a film it would make: Parliament Hill national treasure Ken Loach’s take on the News International events of the past two weeks. 

IT was the biggest party in Egypt’s history. Between January 25 and February 11, the people turned Cairo’s Tahrir Square into a cross between Woodstock and a giant soapbox.

VOCAL music from around the globe is to be sung at the annual Voices Across the World celebration at the Royal Opera House on Sunday July 31, arranged by its ROH2 contemporary producing arm.

A FASCINATING recital illustrating the development of the fortepiano from the 18th to late-19th century is being given by Viviana Sofronitsky, a great exponent of the fortepiano, at Wigmore Hall on

FRIDAY JULY 22
Lazarus String Quartet play Mozart & Beethoven, St Martin-in-the-Fields, 1pm, free