Alex wheatle

Leigh Lawson has embraced acting and poetry with the same determination that sustained Marie Lloyd, the music-hall queen whose memorabilia he collects, as Carla Passino discovers

BOOKS

I read constantly as a child. So many of my early favourites are millennial staples – Nancy Drew, Babysitters Club, and of course, the pinnacle of the classics, RL Stine’s Goosebumps books. I also abs

LESTER COHEN / GETTY Lazarus: The Second Coming ...

Andy West went from visiting his brother in jail to teaching inmates philosophy – now his memoir has been turned into a prison drama

The childhood book that sparked my love of reading was a very heavy tome on Robin Hood. I was fascinated by the outlaw and his band of merry men. A bit later I fell in love with Louise Fitzhugh’s Harr