Jubilee Cake. Regents Park, London, June 2nd 2012.
The Wounded Philoctetes by Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard
Odysseus and the Sirens by Otto Greiner
Garrett Hedlund as Patroclus in the movie Troy. Madeline Miller’s book, The Song of Achilles, is narrated from his point of view: it’s just won the Orange Prize. PW has written a commentary for The Telegraph. Read it here.
Philip and Edmund Gosse: the picture used on the cover of the Penguin Modern Classics edition of Father and Son by Edmund Gosse, which PW is currently enjoying immensely, particularly the fact that they owned a pair of ducks called Baucis and Philemon.
Jessica Chastain and Michael Shannon in Take Shelter, which PW just watched and thought wonderful.
Philip Womack has reviewed The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Simon Mawer for The Daily Telegraph. It’s a smart, suave tale about a woman parachuted into France during the Second World War. Check out the piece here.
Philip Womack has reviewed The Death of Kings by Bernard Cornwell, for The Observer. It’s about Alfred the Great - the picture is of David Hemmings in the 1969 film about the warrior king. Read the review here.
Tom Hiddleston, star of Avengers Assemble, Thor, and many other films, whom Philip Womack saw, but didn’t meet, at Dan Jones’ launch for his new book, The Plantagenets, last night. Read all about it, here.
Philip Womack went to the launch of Bloomsbury Circus last night. Read all about it here. The picture is of author Will Davis, who is also an acrobat. And a very good one at that.
