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16 Jul 2007
Springfield tales As The Simpsons Movie finally hits cinemas, Paul Dale tracks its journey to fruition with creator Matt Groening Occasionally procrastination can be the mother of invention. No one knows this better than 53-year-old…
• Stewart Lee The 41st funniest stand-up is at the top of his game. See preview . The Stand, Glasgow, 30 July. • Comedy Club 4 Kids Will the grown-ups manage to not swear? How will they cope being shown up by the kids? It could get messy. The Bongo…
PROFILE KAREN BAYLEY Who’s she then? The lovely Ms Bayley is a favourite on the circuit, particularly in her own clubs in Sutton Coldfield and Solihull. She’s up here to preview her show The More You Pee, the Less you Cry. Peeing and…
BATMAN SAM KEITH Secrets (DC/Titan) Sam Keith is a another singular and distinctive talent in comics. The unlikely co-creator of The Sandman with Neil Gaiman, he’s more famous for his own series The Maxx. His rough, exaggerated painted…
Also Published CRIME PAPERBACKS • James Lee Burke - Pegasus Descending The daughter of Detective Dave Robicheaux’s dead best friend is going off the rails and he is keen to save her. Especially when she starts behaving similarly to another…
DEBUT NOVEL TOD WODICKA All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well (Jonathan Cape) What an exceptionally odd yet utterly compelling debut novel this is, quite unlike the typical…
HORROR DRAMA JOHN AJVIDE LINDQVIST Let the Right One In (Quercus) Swedish magician turned stand-up comedian turned novelist John Ajvide Lindqvist’s first book features numerous sleight-of-hand tricks and sly jokes. In the opening chapter…
19 Jul 2007
Edinburgh International Book Festival The man who talks Alan Warner may no longer be the wild man of Scottish literature. But he still has plenty to offload on Adrian Turpin about the press, his image and a looming mid-life crisis
Alyn Cosker has emerged as the top young drummer on the Scottish jazz scene, handsomely fulfilling the promise he showed as a teenager in the Strathclyde Youth Jazz Orchestra. He has gone on to work in a variety of other contexts, from the Tommy Smith…
Edinburgh International Jazz and Blues Festival Roll with it Jazz goes back to its roots in the Festival’s ‘American Icons’ strand, as Kenny Mathieson discovers
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