The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater
Part of my RIP VIII reading. Book 2 in The Raven Cycle In the first book we learned that Blue Sargent is the only non-psychic in a family full of clairvoyants,...
5 October 2013
Red Moon by Benjamin Percy
Part of this year’s RIP reading The first recorded mention of lycans was in the 7th century. The result of a prion disease, similar to CJD or mad cow disease, spread...
1 October 2013
The man in the picture by Susan Hill
Part of my RIP VIII reading. Oliver is visiting his old Oxford tutor when Theo begins to tell him a story. It is a cold January night, perfect for huddling round...
19 September 2013
Bloodstones
A collection of horror stories, edited by Amanda Pillar. Part of my RIP VIII reading. Table of contents Introduction – Seanan McGuire The Bull in winter – Dirk Flinthart Euryale –...
16 September 2013
White House Down dir. by Roland Emmerich
Comparisons with Olympus has falle are pretty inescapable. Both feature attacks on the White House, with one armed agent saving the president. Both also feature a heap of blowing stuff up....
15 September 2013
Italian shoes by Henning Mankell
Translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson Fredrik Welin, our first person narrator, lives alone on an island he inherited from his grandparents. His only regular visitor is the postman, Jansson,...
12 September 2013
The Fox and the child dir. by Luc Jacquet
There isn’t really all that much plot to this film. A ten year old girl on her way to school one morning encounters a wild fox. She has never been so...
8 September 2013
Elysium dir. by Neill Blomkamp
In 2154 the rich and privileged have abandoned Earth and now live happily ever after on a space habitat, Elysium. There all your illnesses can be healed, and Jodie Foster runs...
8 September 2013
An uncertain place by Fred Vargas
Translated by Sian Reynolds. An Inspector Adamsberg novel #6 Adamsberg is in England at a European policing convention, discussing immigration and the control thereof. Well, that’s what everyone else is discussing,...
7 September 2013
The son by Michel Rostain
translated from French by Adriana Hunter It is eleven days since our first person narrator has died. He was just twenty one years old when meningitis took him. Now he tells...
2 September 2013
Beasts of the walking city by Del Law
Book one in the Walking Cities series Blackwell is a Hugliev, a once powerful race that have been hunted to the brink of extinction across all known worlds. Often they are...
2 September 2013