2024
key
bold = highlight of 2024
+ = not new in 2024
# = book club
books
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story, Nathan Thrall (2023)#
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky (trans. David McDuff) (1866)
Restless, William Boyd (2007)#
Ablutions, Patrick deWitt (2012)
The Hummingbird, Sandro Veronesi (trans. Elena Pala) (2021)
Faith, Hope and Carnage, Nick Cave and Sean O'Hagan (2023)#
The Life & Times of Michael K, J. M. Coetzee (1983)
The Twilight Word, Werner Herzog (trans. Michael Hofmann) (2023)
Darryl, Jackie Ess (2021)
Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain (2000)
Caledonian Road, Andrew O'Hagan (2024)
Feet in the Clouds, Richard Askwith (2004)#
Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Love and Making a Life, Amy Key (2023)
Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan (2021)
A Box of Matches, Nicholson Baker (2004)
Jesus' Son, Dennis Johnson (2012)#
Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance, Irvine Welsh (1996)
Sleepless, Marie Darrieussecq (trans. Penny Hueston) (2023)
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sachs (1985)#
The Memory Police, Yōko Ogawa (trans. Stephen Snyder) (1994)
Monsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?, Claire Dederer (2023)
films
Sound of Metal (2019)
Saltburn (2023)
The Two Popes (2019)
All of Us Strangers (2023)
Hell or High Water (2016)
Boyz n the Hood (1991)
Past Lives (2023)
The Devil Wears Prada (2006)+
If Only I Could Hibernate (2023)
Searching for Sugarman (2012)
All the President's Men (1976)
The Informant (2009)
Force Majeure (2014)
Paterson (2016)
Anyone But You (2023)
Triangle of Sadness (2022)
22 Jump Street (2014)+
Before Sunrise (1995)
Before Sunset (2004)
Before Midnight (2013)
Arrival (2016)
Emily the Criminal (2022)
albums
'Stretch for the Stars' (EP), Joshua Idehen (2023)
'Shiver' (EP), The Libertines (2024)
'the record', boygenius (2023)
'Wall of Eyes', The Smile (2024)
'Promises', Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra (2021)
'Where's My Utopia?', Yard Act (2023)
'Cold Fact', Rodriquez (1970)
'Coming from Reality', Rodriquez (1971)
'What Now', Brittany Howard (2024)
'Mountainhead', Everything Everything (2024)
'This Ain't the Way You Go Out', Lucy Rose (2024)
'Blue', Joni Mitchell (1971)
'A Dream Is All We Know', The Lemon Twigs (2024)
'Romance', Fontaines D.C. (2024)
'Samurai', Lupe Fiasco (2024)
exhibitions
'Time is Out of Joint', National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art (Rome)
'Philip Guston', Tate Modern
'Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990', Tate Britain
'Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize', National Portrait Gallery
'The Cult of Beauty', Wellcome Collection
'Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and The Blue Rider', Tate Modern
live music
Ben L'Oncle Soul, Alcazar Live
Yard Act, Rough Trade East
Romy, Roundhouse
Dan Shake / Pretty Girl, Phonox
Berlioz, Brixton Academy
Lapsley, Brixton Academy
theatre
The Cherry Orchard, Donmar Warehouse
Dr Strangelove, Noel Coward Theatre
restaurants
Perilla, Stoke Newington
Felice a Testaccio, Rome
Salumeria Con Cucina Roscioli, Rome
Zahter, Carnaby Street
Beckford Inn, Tewksbury
Chez Bruce (*), Wandsworth+
Ottolenghi, Spitalfields+
Dalla Terra, Covent Garden
Faros, Soho
Little House, Balham
Ye Olde Hobnails Inn, Tewkesbury
Pot Luck Club, Cape Town
Scala Pasta / Bar, Cape Town
La Colombe, Constantia
El Burro, Cape Town
Franks Corner, Franschhoek
The Girl's On The Square, Wilderness
Pumba Game Reserve, Eastern Cape
Nest, Knysna
Maillard Baking Co, Knysna
Sirocco, Knysna
Coral, Mauritius
Kot Nou, Mauritius
Lemongrass, Mauritius
Le Benetier, Mauritius
Le Chamarel, Mauritius
Muang Thai, Camden
thirty7, Covent Garden
Morito, Hackney+
Nobu, Shoreditch+
Botanica Hall, Clapham Junction
Devonshire Terrace, Liverpool Street
Brutto, Farringdon
St John (bar), Smithfield
Mechela, Seville
Mamarracha, Seville
Caminata, Balham (x2)
Pasha Mangal, Balham (x2)
Hawksmoor, Air Street+
Dishoom, King's Cross
Som Saa, Spitalfields
180 House, The Strand
Three Uncles, Brixton
Balham Social, (...)Balham
The Duke of Malborough, Woodstock
The Perch, Binsey
Megan's on the Hill, Balham
Le Bab, Covent Garden
podcasts
Kermode & Mayo's Take+
The Russell Brand Podcast (Radio 2 / Audioboom / XFM)+
The News Agents+
The News Meeting+
Today in Focus+
The Adam Buxton Podcast+
Joel Golby's Book Club
Desert Island Discs+
Off Menu
Young Again+
The Louis Theroux Podcast
Conversations with Tyler
tv
Mr Bates v The Post Office (limited series)
The Traitors (series 2)
Six Nations: Full Contact (limited series)
One Day (limited series)
Gossip Girl (series 1-3)
Ripley (limited series)
Kin (series 1)
Gordon, Gino and Fred: Road Trip (series 1)
America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders (limited series)
talks
'Judges, Politics, and the Public: A Judge’s View from Inside Westminster' by Sir Nicholas Green, Leicester Lit&Phil Society
foreign travel (no 'favourites of the year', all excellent)
Rome
South Africa (Cape Town, Franschhoek, Wilderness, Pumba Game Reserve, Knysna)
Mauritius
Seville
Algarve (work)
New York
Miami (work)
Amsterdam
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