The cover painting is 11am, Monday (2024) by Joy Labinjo, an artist brought to my attention by one of you kind readers who read the last Bits and Bobs; the mention of The Drop Sinister reminded her of this painting by Labinjo that she’d seen at the Fitzwilliam Museum. Thanks so much, Jennifer! (And if I haven’t mentioned it already, I do love hearing from you guys, keep ’em coming, please.)
Women Workers in the Canteen at Williams & Williams, Chester by Ethel Léontine Gabain (1883–1950)
The “low morals and high fences” world of Dame Jilly Cooper’s books has come to TV in Hulu’s adaptation of her 1988 novel, Rivals. Don’t sleep on David Tennant (above) as Tony Baddingham, darlings!
Based on Charles Yu’s award-winning book of the same name, Interior Chinatown, is out next month, also from Hulu, and I’ll be watching. (Above) ‘Greetings from Chinatown’ mural on Allen St, NY.
Obit
from the recently published Forest of Noise by Mosab Abu Toha
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