Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute The Stuarts of Bute came to Scotland in the 11th century but the neo-Gothic house dates from the 19th century. It’s the home of the current Marquess of Bute, better known as the racing driver Johnny Dumfries.Best celebrity momentStella McCartney married Alasdhair Willis here in 2003 in a [...]
Through a Darwinian line, it also encompasses a kind of evolutionary psychology.
Jacques Rebi?, whose mother is lost to the mists of his early infancy, is the brilliant son of a miserly Breton father, just out of the peasantry. Geographically, the book spans England, France, Austria and Africa, with a foray to America’s west [...]
He is careful not to romanticise the gradual closing of this gap between how he lived and what he could write. A lot of self-hatred and self-doubt had to be cleared, and these elements of his persona are evident in My Lives. One reason for the success of these books is White’s [...]
“He was Special Forces, man!” says someone, incredulous that one of their colleagues should be so easily dispatched: he’s not very special now. The film rather hurries its last 20 minutes, and the disintegrating set, a Bosch-like vision of hell up to this point, looks suddenly quite crummy. It substitutes the horripilating [...]
More pertinent would have been outrage over the bad acting, the inept depiction of working-class characters and its naive view of the world Only the camerawork of Yorgos Arvanitis has merit. It’s the experimental camerawork in Mary McGuckian’s Rag Tale that is its main flaw. Nick Love’s latest, The Business, is an [...]
His Night of the Living Dead, made as America was being shaken for the first time by its losses in Vietnam, reveals a country at war with itself as much as with invaders. A new era of realism was ushered in; fear wasn’t confined to vampires’ castles in Transylvania – it could strike [...]