Our authors are a busy bunch – here’s everything they have been up to this weekend.
1. Steven Berkoff in Sunday Times Magazine (£)
Actor of villainous roles, Steven Berkoff, whose memoir, Tales From An Actor’s Life, was released last year, appeared in the Sunday Times Magazine, taking part in their ‘witter’ feature. In ‘the world’s fastest interview’, Steven discusses ‘the Queen, getting kicked out of cafes, and being sensitive’.
2. Deepak Lal in the Business Standard
Deepak Lal, author of Lost Causes: The Retreat From Classic Liberalism, writes in the Business Standard on India’s budget and how it shows that ‘India's democracy is becoming dysfunctional in its reckless expansion of the state’.
3. Michael Nicholson’s upcoming documentary
Accompanying your weekend papers, you may have read in your TV guide that Michael Nicholson, author of A State Of War Exists, will be appearing in ITV’s Return To The Falklands tomorrow evening at 9.00pm. The documentary shows Michael as he travels back to the Falklands, where he reported on the Falklands War all those years ago.
4. The lasting legacy of Bram Stoker
As the centenary of Bram Stoker’s death approaches, and The Lost Journal of Bram Stoker continues to fascinate, over at The Spectator Stewart King ponders Stoker’s lasting legacy. With a generation of tweens obsessed by vampires, it’s argued that Dracula has left ‘perhaps a greater legacy than any other novel of its era’.
5. Kerri Sackville: ‘Is stress contagious?’
Kerri Sackville, author of When My Husband Does The Dishes (He Usually Wants Sex!), takes on the topic of stress over at Daily Life, wondering whether she caught the stress of a fellow salon-goer: ‘Distance yourself from the stress-head in the office. Don’t sit next to the agitated man in the cafe. And when you’re going for a manicure, pop in your iPod, and tune out.’
6. Interview with Michael McManus
Ok so it’s not TECHNICALLY from this weekend, but still very much worth a read. In gay lifestyle magazine QX, Michael McManus discusses his book, Tory Pride and Prejudice, and shifting attitudes towards homosexuality in the Conservative Party.