An occasional blog concerned with the world of English Language and Literature. Featuring insights from examiners and past students as well as encouraging and inspiring everyone to pick up a book and get lost in a new world.
The Faction’s The Talented Mr Ripley is currently in Brighton and touring across the UK in the coming weeks. It’s definitely worth an evening of your time - slick, unsettling, and fiendishly clever theatre that lingers long after the lights go up. I’ll be keeping an eye on whatever this company does next.
There’s something about a Renaissance man with a God complex that just won’t die. Whether he’s summoning devils (Doctor Faustus), murdering kings (Macbeth), or designing a theocracy under the guise of morality (The Handmaid’s Tale’s Commander), you can practically hear the self-belief whirring. The centuries change, the tights become trousers, but the hubris? Eternal.
TV's The (Celeb) Traitors - a masterclass in the need to plan an essay. With no spoilers! There’s something almost indecently satisfying about pulling off a plan. The clean click of cause and effect. The sly grin of inevitability. It’s why The A-Team and every child of the 70s loved it when a plan came together. And why The Traitors, especially last night’s celebrity edition, is the most exquisite piece of clockwork on television.
I’ve just cracked open The Vegetarian. And then I stopped writing and carried on reading. That was my day yesterday.
Sophie Welsh
Sep 23, 20252 min read
Theresa, Abu Dhabi
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