I am going to this tonight at the Lyric Hammersmith and I am actually scared.
WATCH THE TRAILER
A truly terrifying theatrical experience written and directed by The League of Gentlemen’s master of the macabre, Jeremy Dyson, and Andy Nyman, co-creator and director of Derren Brown’s television and stage shows and star of Dead Set and Severance.
WARNING:
Please be advised that Ghost Stories contains moments of extreme shock and tension. The show is unsuitable for anyone under the age of 16. We strongly advise those of a nervous disposition to think very seriously before attending.
If you like this, you may also like In Conversation with… Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman.
Author and journalist Fiona Neill explores the experience of growing up in a creatively successful family in FAMOUS FOOTSTEPS – a major new series starting this week on BBC Radio 4. . Fiona considers the challenges of maintaining a creative career while bringing up small children. How does a writer, working at home, manage to carve out the mental and physical space to work? Is the ‘pram in the hallway’ really a barrier to creative thought? She talks to Jennifer Saunders, Adrian Edmondson, Daphne Du Maurier’s daughter Tessa Montgomery and songwriter Guy Chambers about their experiences of balancing these conflicting demands.
Listen in on Tuesday at 09:30 on BBC Radio 4 and throughout the week on Listen Again here
Fiona’s new novel FRIENDS, LOVERS AND OTHER INDISCRETIONS is out on Feb 1Oth in paperback from Arrow.
Yes Man author
Danny Wallace is to star in an American television pilot of his new book
Awkward Situations for Men.
The title, which will be published in the UK on 3rd June by Ebury Press, has been commissioned for a pilot episode by American television network ABC.
The TV project, from Warner Bros. TV and Heyday Films, will follow Wallace’s character as he moves to America with his wife, only to discover that his everyday behaviour clashes with American values and gets him into trouble.
Wallace said: “I’m thrilled that the next book will have a life beyond the pages… Making a TV show for an American audience is exciting, but daunting, too… nevertheless, I intend to give it a good go, for Britain, and to avoid as many awkward situations as I can while doing so…”
Time to start with a clean 
slate and to finally get your life in order? Luckily Mike Gayle has done a lot of the work for you in his laugh-out-loud memoir THE TO-DO LIST.
Here are some wonderful early reviews for the paperback….
MAIL ON SUNDAY (3 Jan)
“A book guaranteed to appeal to disorganized slackers everywhere”
CLOSER MAGAZINE (5 Jan)
“You’ll laugh out loud throughout this brilliant and utterly hilarious read” *****
The formal dinner party may be dead, but its exuberant younger cousin lives on in a thousand middle-class homes – informal, competitive, prone to tears and culinary disasters and a hotbed of gossip. It’s boosted by the phenomenal ratings of television’s Come Dine With Me and now you can join in too.
The Lady, courtesy of Jessica Ruston, is hosting its very own supper party each week in Come for Dinner, a serial that takes place in and around a pocket of streets in South London, and tells the stories of a group of friends and neighbours through their dinner parties and kitchen suppers.
Come for Dinner and meet a group of characters who you will grow to love – peer through the French windows of their kitchens, and eavesdrop over the pre-dinner drinks, sit down at their tables and gasp at the revelations that follow…
You can read the first episode online here
“What I really want to read is a proper, old-fashioned blockbuster like they used to do. You know?” a friend said to me a couple of 
years ago. And I did know. I knew exactly the sort of book she was talking about. That conversation planted the seed of the idea which became my first novel, Luxury, which is just that – an old-fashioned blockbuster, brought bang up to date.
When I started writing Luxury, I did a lot of thinking about what makes a novel a blockbuster, as opposed to a saga, or chick lit. While the traditional definition of a blockbuster is simply a mega-seller, like their cinematic counterparts, to call a book a blockbuster implies something more than simply selling in droves – although of course one always hopes they will do that as well…..
So says Jessica Ruston, author of the sparklingly good LUXURY (out now from Headline) who reveals the vital ingredients for a blockbusting novel in The Guardian. Click here to reveal all.
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