Mirror Magazine
The11th hour rush
It’s that time of the year when the magazine team brainstorms for Christmas gift ideas that readers could gift loved ones having done the rounds around Colombo, we’ve compiled this guide of suggestions which could hopefully benefit last minute shoppers and help make that eleventh hour rush a little less hectic. For Her Clothing Melache [...]
Christmas reads
Looking for the perfect book to curl up with this Christmas? Here’s what we recommend: Hogfather by Terry Pratchett (Discworld #20) There’s a great deal to love about Terry Pratchett and a lot of it is on display in Hogfather, a fan favourite from the Discworld canon. The book introduces Susan. She’s brave, utterly practical and [...]
A time to come together | What Christmas means to me
My earliest memory of Christmas is Home Alone…no, not actually home alone-although that holds interesting possibilities-I mean the movie. It’s my favourite movie of the holiday season. If we have a Christmas tradition then it definitely has to be these movies. My family doesn’t really celebrate the holiday, so we spend our Christmas eve and [...]
Slipping into detective mode with ‘And Then There Were None’
A child’s nursery rhyme – simple in form, yet deadly in consequence – forms the quaintly chilling script on which a self-proclaimed homicidal maniac masterminds his final, most bloody killing spree. Dame Agatha Christie’s ‘And Then There Were None’ is characterised by its bizarre paradoxes of sometimes-comic gore and genteel mayhem. Some clever use of [...]
