Topic: Justin Cartwright

Man in court over 'explosive find'

A 37-year-old man will appear in court charged with explosives offences after officers searched an address, police said.. The discovery of explosives components was made in Penwortham, near Preston, Lancashire on Thursday.. Justin Cartwright, of Woodville Road, Penwortham is charged with six ...

Piers Paul Read

Clare Asquith's Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare (Public Affairs, I have only just read Justin Cartwright's novel, The Promise of Happiness (Bloomsbury, 7.99), and am still wondering quite what makes it so good. but ...

Writing God off

Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Jeanette Winterson and Christopher Hitchens are some of those auditioning for the part of the boy, or girl, who calls the emperor naked. To Cartwright as to Amis, the falsity of religion is an open-and-shut case ...