Carlos Acosta announces debut novel
Carlos Acosta in Romeo and Juliet © Dee Conway/ROH 2011 Carlos Acosta has announced that his debut novel will be published in 2013. The as yet untitled story is set in Cuba with a narrative unfolding...
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Carlos Acosta in Requiem © Tristram Kenton & Johan Persson /ROH 2011 Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta has been dazzling audiences in Covent Garden as a Principal Guest Artist since 2003, this season...
View ArticleThe Wasp Factory: A political allegory?
Iain Banks © Joel Meadows Iain Banks’s The Wasp Factory was published in 1984 – the year George Orwell had imagined a dystopian state in what was once Great Britain. The relevance of Orwell’s vision to...
View ArticleCarlos Acosta to sign copies of his debut novel on 16 November
Carlos Acosta rehearsing for Don Quixote © ROH / Johan Persson 2013 Royal Ballet Principal Guest Artist Carlos Acosta will be signing copies of his debut novel Pig’s Foot at 4.30pm on 16 November at...
View ArticleScience experiments and personal tragedy: bringing Mary Shelley's...
Detail from 'Frankenstein observing the first stirrings of his creature'. Engraving by W. Chevalier after Th. von Holst, 1831. The story of how Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein came to be written is well...
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