Birmingham
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A Waterstones Evening With Benjamin Stevenson – Pt 2
A little later than promised, but hey, life gets in the way. This is part 2 of the Waterstones Birmingham chat with award winning writer and comedian Ben Stevenson. (Part 1 is here.) His current book ‘ Everybody on this train is a suspect‘ is just out in paperback, and Ben was chatting about this, and all things cosy crime. What’s coming next? I have a Christmas themed book with the same detective out in October, and then a fourth novel currently in progress. But I do have a worry about how many murders an amateur detective can come across. The first book (Everyone in my family has killed someone)…
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La Fille Mal Gardee at the Birmingham Hippodrome
La Fille Mal Gardee by the Birmingham Royal Ballet started a four night run at the Birmingham Hippodrome last night, and delighted and charmed audiences with it’s story of true love almost thwarted by the power of money. The ballet was created by Frederick Ashton in 1960 and is the simple story of the beautiful Lise, in this instance played by the enchanting Beatrice Parma, who is deeply in love with a poor farm lad called Colas(Enrique Bejarano Vidal – just perfect). They are perfectly matched but Lise’s mother, the widow Simone wants a better (read richer) match for her beloved daughter. She finds this in the umbrella obsessed Alain,…
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A Waterstones Evening With Benjamin Stevenson PT 1
Benjamin Stevenson is one of the hottest writers around. An award winning stand up comedian as well as an author, his last book was the international bestseller ‘Everyone in my family has killed someone‘, and now he is back with a loving tribute to the golden age of crime, ‘Everyone on this train is a suspect’. Last Thursday Benjamin made an appearance at Waterstones Birmingham to talk all about his new book. Here are some snippets from that chat. What is ‘Everyone on this train is a suspect’ about? It’s about a writer’s festival, 6 writers on a luxury train (The Ghan) which is a bit like the Orient Express.…
