Over the years, Mark Steyn's writing on politics, arts and culture has been published in almost every major newspaper around the English-speaking world, including Britain's Daily Telegraph, Canada's National Post, The Australian, The Irish Times, The Jerusalem Post, The Wall Street Journal, and many more. Notionally a send-up of the recent royal wedding, ‘The Prisoner of Windsor’ flounders, partly through dearth of wit, partly because it has all the ire of a damp flannel. Penned in the weeks leading up to the ceremony, the play seems fatally informed by the British public’s generally tolerant view of Wills and Kate. There is no republican edge here, or even a point to make, just a nice but dim William and bog-standard parodies of the older royals.

It has one foot for every year of the centenary of British Columbia which was named by Queen Victoria in 1858! Once Harry has bowed to the proud creature and gains his trust, Hagrid unceremoniously shoves Harry on top of him and they take a ride around Hogwarts Great Lake!

Introducing him at the United States Senate in 2015, Ted Cruz called Mark Steyn "an international bestselling author, a Top Five jazz recording artist, and a leading Canadian human rights activist". With fans around the world, Steyn has appeared on stages across the planet from Toronto's Roy Thomson Hall to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. His 2016 nationwide tour of Australia was sold out coast to coast. He has spoken in the Canadian Parliament, the Ontario Parliament, the Danish Parliament, and the Australian Parliament, where he was introduced by the then Foreign Minister, Julie Bishop. If you were chasing Harry Potter filming locations, then you couldn’t be in a better place to find them! Steyn has a great handle on the adventure style of the late nineteenth century—and in the form of people like Anthony Hope and Alexander Dumas, who knew how to make their wordy texts both compelling and fast-moving despite the wordiness. Updating such a style for modern readers is very difficult to do, but also very rewarding... Despite the occasional laboured scene, the production was pacey and energetic, with regular smiles and a titter or two coming from the audience.

I thank Jerry Stratton for his very perceptive review, but I note that, oddly enough, that "big speech" chapter was a particular favourite with audio-book listeners. Lisa Gerlich from Texas: There are many places that you can visit aside from chasing Virginia Water Harry Potter filming locations!It may surprise you to know that there is a Virginia Water Harry Potter connection. But, it’s true and this amazing parkland was used to film parts of Hogwarts Lake! This great royal lake had its humble beginning as a small stream in the 17th-century and it’s thought that it got its name from the Virgin Queen Elizabeth I. I was delighted by the reaction of Steyn Clubbers to this audio entertainment. Nancy Hawkes wrote from Virginia: At first, I found this hard to believe. I mean, if you look at the scenes of Hogwarts Great Lake, you’d never believe that it was filmed in Surrey near London.

The last Virginia Water Harry Potter filming location in the Prisoner of Azkaban is where Harry Potter fights off the Dementor’s Kiss of Death in the Forbidden Forest with his Patronus. Essentially a series of sketches weakly pastiching the likes of ‘The King’s Speech’, ‘Cyrano de Bergerac’ and ‘The Prisoner of Zenda’, it coagulates into a desultory story about an enlightened Romanian gardener trading places with a reluctant Wills. It resembles nothing so much as the horrific oeuvre of lowest common denominator US filmmakers the Wayans brothers, and there are some moments of such excruciatingly tedious pointlessness that I genuinely wanted to cry. This inversion takes place in post-modern (by about a Max Headroom 20 minutes, I’d guess) England. The deposed king of Ruritania acquires an invite to the coronation of the next king of England (Arthur, of course) and finds himself lost in an England where Ruritanian content farmers control the plumbing market. Or at least, where everyone thinks Ruritanian content farmers are the new Jews, and Ruritanian plumbers are doing the jobs English plumbers won’t do. Unlike Scotland, England isn’t exactly known for its mighty peaks standing over impressive lochs! In fact, most of England is flat in comparison. Also, you’ll find a 100-foot Totem Pole was a gift from the Canadian people to Queen Elizabeth II in 1958. It was gifted to mark 100 years of British Colombia started under Queen Victoria. There is one foot for every year and it weighs a whopping 12 tonnes.Thank you, Nancy. No sooner had the audio book wrapped up than we had many queries about whether I would be committing it to hard covers. Well, yes, I will. I don't account it a work of genius, but the "Doctor Davos" character medicating (and over-medicating) national leaders seems to be pretty prescient about where our world is headed.