The Dark Side of ‘Work from Home’
It’s 4:30 on a Thursday afternoon. Given the low workload today, you figure why not pour a glass of wine to get you through the last hours...
Uni Leavers: A Very Pandemic Graduation
There are millions of students in the UK, and hundreds of thousands of these make their way onto London’s city campuses each and every Autumn. Excep
Filter Faces: The Rise of Non-Surgical Procedures
Jawlines that could cut glass and razor sharp cheekbones. Duck lips, trout pout, fox eyes. The language of cosmetically enhanced procedures is curious
home alone: A tale of notting hill carnival
Electric colours. Extravagant feathers. Big brass bands booming; sequins shiver and shake. Usually attended by a whooping crowd of 2 million (an
Nightlife, unlocked
LONDNR records the first night-out in a long time… Synchronised sweating and making out with strangers. Light the fags, lift your arms. Ci
doors of london
The ennui of lockdown was personified in walking, We circled round our houses, thinking but not talking, We trampled over pavements, we tripped up cob
The White Album
What might seem excessive is in fact only reasonable. There is no plot, the narrative is broken into a collage of impressions and facts, and it isn’
Romance of the Thin Man and the Fat Lady
The first story, after which this book is named, is a ludicrous circus romance between a Thin Man and his Fat Lady, who are 'more or less the ultimate
The Committed
The novel opens with les boat-people, a belittling term under which Vietnamese fleeing from occupied/liberated (depending on whom you are speaking to)