by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 14, 2009 | Blog, Memoir
A cellist from Manchester has successfully sued a venue under the Trade Descriptions Act for failing to provide live musicians at a “magical familiy musical”. Adrian Bradbury took his family to the Lowry Theatre at Salford, near Manchester, to see a live...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 7, 2009 | Blog, Pianos and pianists on the stage and the page
In a bizarre twist on the recent history of the automotive industry, Audi has decided to mark its centenary by commissioning its youngest designers to come up with a new … piano. I’m as much a fan of the piano as anyone who’s played the instrument...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 6, 2009 | Blog, Improve your writing
Having a few years ago abandoned the 9-5 office life for the life of a project-based consultant and writer (whose working schedule resembles nothing so much as the extreme ups and downs of a polygraph), I am still amazed at the extent to which my expectations of my...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jun 29, 2009 | Blog, Memoir
I’m very excited to read The Lost Mother, the new book by Anne Summers, which I discussed with her in its early stages of development. Anne worked furiously on the book throughout 2008 and it’s wonderful to see her receiving so much attention for this new...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jun 26, 2009 | Blog, Improve your writing
It’s years since I’ve seen a production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, one of my favourite of his plays (you’d have to be a right curmudgeon to dislike it). So when a friend offered me a last-minute free ticket courtesy of a colleague who was...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jun 24, 2009 | Blog, Uncategorized
According to International PEN’s Writers in Prison Committee, prominent dissident writer Liu Xiaobo, former President and Board member of Independent Chinese PEN Centre, is to stand trial on charges of ‘incitement to subversion of state power’. Liu Xiaobo...