Novelist, poet, dramatist and sometime publisher, John Harvey has been a professional writer for some forty years. The first of his Charlie Resnick series, Lonely Hearts, was named by The Times as one of the 100 most notable crime novels of the last century, and in 2007 he was the recipient of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger for Sustained Excellence in Crime Writing. He has been awarded Honorary Doctorates by the Universities of both Nottingham and Hertfordshire.
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Poetry & Jazz at the Brighton Fringe
Performing with the John Lake Band at The Latest Music Bar, Manchester Street, Brighton, as part of the Brighton Fringe Festival, Thursday, 25th May. I shall be reading with the John Lake Band at Foyles, Charing Cross Road, London, on Friday, 24th November, and at the Underground Theatre, Eastbourne on Friday, 29th December. Liz Isles […]
Last Dozen Films I Saw …
Graduation : Cristian Mungiu (2016) I Am Not Your Negro : Raoul Peck (2016) A Quiet Passion : Terence Davies (2017) Clash : Mohamed Diab (2016) Bunch of Kunst : Christine Frantz (2016) You Have No Idea How Much I Love You : Pawel Lozinski (2017) Their Finest : Lone Sherfig (2016) The Levelling : […]
Picturing Wolfgang Tillmans …
It Was 50 Years Ago …
I’m reminded today, with much coverage in the media of this being the 50th anniversary of the release of Sergeant Pepper, that, some good few years ago, I was in a men’s clothing shop on Bridlesmith Gate in Nottingham when one of the assistants came up to me and introduced himself as a former student of […]