Chiswick Book Festival Reviews and Features

I love you, You’re perfect, Now change

November 6, 2019/by Bridget Osborne

The Chiswick Playhouse has opened its first production under its new name. in the studio space above the Tabard pub. I love you, You’re perfect, Now change is running until 30 November. I went to see it last week and it was great fun. It’s billed as a brand-new version of a hit musical. To me it seemed more like a revue – a selection of songs based on different scenarios on the theme of love, sex and relationships, but with no over-arching story line. It’s none the less engaging for that. The four actors / singers are very accomplished West End performers and Laura Johnson in particular has a fabulous voice. You

Queen Victoria at Chiswick House

October 26, 2019/by Bridget Osborne

Local authors session 2015

October 25, 2019/by Bridget Osborne

Carol’s Picks – The New Mrs Clifton

October 25, 2019/by Bridget Osborne

Carol’s Picks – The Co-Op’s Got Bananas

October 25, 2019/by Bridget Osborne

150 years of Alice in Wonderland

October 25, 2019/by Bridget Osborne

Biography of American wartime spy Virginia Hall

October 25, 2019/by Bridget Osborne

Terrorism linked to domestic violence

October 25, 2019/by Bridget Osborne

Domestic violence linked to terrorism Festival review by Bridget Osborne October 2019 Photograph above: Jess Phillips MP in the Chamber of the Houses of Parliament Labour MP Jess Phillips says she’s had it explained to her in graphic detail what some angry men would like to do to her. She gets messages like this one: ‘Unless you change your attitude, be afraid, be very afraid... Wherever you are, keep looking over your shoulder ... You and your Remain friends have been warned’ and messages which are much more explicit than that. Paula Sherrif MP says she gets death threats ‘every single day’. ‘I’ve received death threats, I’ve received rape threats, I’ve been shouted at in the streets, I’ve had abusive phone calls’. 23 year o