Reading

Some recent reading: Michael Cragg’s Reach for the Stars and Miranda Sawyer’s Uncommon People are fantastic explorations of British pop from the nineties and noughties, the last hurrah of pre-streaming music. Wonderful nostalgia for anyone raised on Smash Hits and Select. Bouncing back and forth between 1890s architecture and gripping, horrible true crime, Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City may be my dream book. And having now fallen in love with two adaptations, I’ve finally sunk my teeth into Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr Ripley, and it does not disappoint.