Simon Mayo

2 months ago | myweekly.co.uk | Linda Hill |Simon Mayo |Allison Hay

REVIEWED BY LINDA HILLWhen a demonstration in London’s exclusive Coal Drops Yard leads to a catastrophic fire at the West End Gallery owned by wealthy philanthropists the Nash family, no-one expects an unidentified body to be found in the ashes. It soon becomes clear to investigative journalist Famie Maden that there’s more to this story than meets the eye. Black Tag: book review & synopsisBlack Tag is absolutely thrilling.

Jul 18, 2023 | msn.com | Simon Mayo

The first proper interview I ever conducted was with the late John Wells. The satirist was in the West End performing his Denis Thatcher routine in the smash hit Anyone for Denis? But the subject of our conversation was not the husband of the then prime minister, nothing to do with the UK, nor in fact anything from the 20th century at all. Instead we discussed the events of 1778 and how watchmaker, arms dealer and spy Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais had come to write The Marriage of Figaro.

Jul 18, 2023 | waterstones.com | Simon Mayo

It starts quietly enough. A tick-tick-ticking you can hear in your ear. Tinnitus, you think. It will pass. But it doesn't. It gets worse - and then you pass it on. Before you know it, it spreads. Elsewhere across the globe, it emerges: small outbreaks at first, but then suddenly it's a plague - and only days later it is already killing people. In an increasingly affected north London school, teacher Kit Chaplin is struggling to understand what he is witnessing.

Jul 28, 2022 | hive.co.uk | Simon Mayo

Jul 5, 2022 | smarturl.it | Simon Mayo