There are many people who will have switched off during the first five minutes of Skins, E4’s notorious wild-child. The show is…

Teachers lurk anxiously behind tinsel-covered curtains; excited children wait for their big moment; and nervous parents hope that their…

Mark Meynell is disoriented by the reality-probing of Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives. There are three deaths. The first is when…

Dawn Bundy is a fifteen-year-old English girl. She is not especially attractive, and she doesn’t really fit in. Her best friends are…

A review of the film Last Chance Harvey.

One of the most moving films of 2008, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a powerful, haunting story about the horrors of the Holocaust.…

Why do people do the things they do? It’s a question the world’s greatest philosophers, theologians, scientists and doctors…

Review of Amazing Grace in the light of whether religion is a force for good or for bad.

Reviews of some of Joanne Harris' novels, including Chocolat.