- Sarah Hutchings on The Good Son, this year’s City Reads novel

- Lesbian knife-throwing rock opera comes to the Fringe - we’ll hear from the magnificently monikered Daggers MacKenzie

- The fabulous acrobatics of the very naughty Head First Acrobats and their Elixir show are back in town - and you’ve the chance to win tickets for their cracking show

- And more fringing with the International Man of Leather John Pendal