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The Hypochondriac – Review – Sheffield Crucible
By Clare Jenkins, October 2023 Well, now, this is radical: a 17th Century play set in a cluttered, book-lined 17th ... -
Steel City Readers by Mary Grover – Review
By Clare Jenkins When Sheffield’s Firth Park branch library opened in 1930, Jack Walker, one of its first librarians, recalled: ... -
Matthew Bourne’s Romeo & Juliet – Review – Sheffield Lyceum Theatre
By Clare Jenkins, October 2023 Well, it’s Romeo and Juliet, all right, but not the ballet as we’ve usually known ... -
We Could All Be Perfect – Review – Sheffield Playhouse
By Clare Jenkins, October 2023 Who’d be a teenage girl nowadays? Crying yourself to sleep at night over fears for ... -
Studley Castle, Warwickshire – Review
By Clare Jenkins, August 2023 It was when the band launched into ‘Baby Love’ and two men (one wearing a ... -
Northumberland: Alnwick and The Amble Inn – Travel Review
By Clare Jenkins, August, 2023 Question: what do Harry Hotspur, Harry Potter, Tootles the Taxi and taxidermy have in common? ... -
Northumberland: Lindisfarne & Bamburgh Castle – Travel Review
By Clare Jenkins, July 2023 It’s undeniably one of the great British railway coastlines. North of Newcastle, passing Morpeth, Alnwick, ... -
Ramsgate & Pegwell Bay Hotel – Review
By Clare Jenkins, June 2023 If Ramsgate had its own visitors’ book, it would make impressive reading. Jane Austen visited ... -
How to Survive a Classic Crime Novel by Kate Jackson – Review
By Clare Jenkins One day in St Mary Mead, a murder is announced which puts the cat among the pigeons. ... -
Margate & The Walpole Bay Hotel – Review
By Clare Jenkins, June 2023 The artist Tracey Emin is passionate about her hometown of Margate. “I just love it ... -
Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women by Victoria Smith – Review
By Clare Jenkins Thirty years ago, way before LGBTQI+ politics became A Thing, I did an MA in Women’s Studies. ... -
Broadstairs in Kent, Royal Albion Hotel and The Yarrow – Review
By Clare Jenkins, May 2023 Charles Dickens loved Broadstairs. After visiting the Kent resort for the first time in 1837, ...
