Holly Williams

Oct 30, 2024 | aol.co.uk | Holly Williams

Britain’s property sector was dealt a double blow after the Chancellor increased stamp duty charges on second homes and failed to extend the tax relief for first time buyers. Rachel Reeves announced the Government would increase the Stamp Duty Land Tax payable on second homes and buy-to-let from 3% to 5% from Thursday in a move experts have warned will send demand from property investors slumping.

Apr 16, 2024 | londonreviewbookshop.co.uk | Kaliane Bradley |Allen Bratton |Holly Williams |Jo Hamya

Number one with a bullet in my picks for this spring is Kaliane Bradley’s The Ministry of Time. If you, like me (and more importantly, like Kaliane Bradley), got deeply obsessed with the television show The Terror during lockdown, this is the book for you: the cleverest, most imaginative, most well-written HMS Erebus fan fiction you’ll ever have the pleasure to read.

Nov 11, 2023 | telegraph.co.uk | Marianka Swain |Chris Harvey |Dominic Cavendish |Holly Williams

Homegrown "her-story" hit Six the musical, dreamed up by Cambridge students Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss in 2017, is now a world-conquering smash, with productions springing up everywhere from Broadway to Germany, Australia and South Korea. But this successful export is still just as pleasurable a watch at London's Vaudeville Theatre, where rapturous audiences cheer and whoop its dynamic reclamation of women's stories.

Nov 11, 2023 | telegraph.co.uk | Chris Harvey |Marianka Swain |Dominic Cavendish |Holly Williams

The Game of Thrones star on what links Lady Macbeth with the Duchess of Sussex - and how she's helping to make Doctor Who scary againIndira Varma emerges from the rehearsal room as if she's just jumped out of a cockpit, chic casual in a flight suit, and full of enthusiasm for her latest part. Varma is playing Lady Macbeth, opposite Ralph Fiennes, and the Game of Thrones star has been working through her thoughts on the play.

Oct 29, 2023 | telegraph.co.uk | Richard Bean |Diane Snyder |Claire Allfree |Holly Williams

In that respect, my parents' generation have the right to feel somewhat abandoned. You could argue the mantra of "education, education, education" is the thing that has fractured families and communities up and down the land. In my play, which is being co-directed by the actor Richard Wilson, Florence and Jack Kirk are not my mum and dad but they are caught in the same modern trap.