Ardulum : first don by J. S. Fields
Ardulum book one I can’t quite remember where or why I picked this book up. I would guess I saw it mentioned on twitter and forgot to tag it so the...
13 July 2019
Ghost wall by Sarah Moss
I first saw mention of this book on Tor.com which described it as a book that leads us onto the muddy, bloodstained road that Folk Horror normally follows, and then finds...
4 July 2019
Centurion dir. by Neil Marshall
Writ & Dir: Neil Marshall
I love and adore Dog Soldiers. And The Decent was pretty damn good too Of course Doomsday was utterly preposterous but you win some, you lose some. And I was still prepared to take a chance on Neil Marshall, especially when the story is about Roman soldiers on the run in the second century. I mean it had to be better than King Arthur, right?
4 July 2019
The girl with the dragon heart by Stephanie Burgis
Tales from the Chocolate Heart ; 2 I’ve been meaning to read this book ever since I heard it was coming out, but it has taken me a while to get...
29 June 2019
Underland : a deep time journey by Robert MacFarlane
It’s hard to summarize this book. The publisher’s blurb mentions a journey, and glaciers, and burial chambers, and the planet’s past and future. Which is all true, and covers a hell...
27 June 2019
Things a bright girl can do by Sally Nicholls
This was one of a number of books mentioned at my last book club meeting, and as I was heading to the hairdressers I realised I didn’t have a book with...
17 June 2019
Thirteen ways of looking by Colum McCann
A novella, Thirteen ways of looking and short stories, What time is it now, where you are?, Sh’hkol, Treaty. Trigger warning – assault & rape are referenced. The first story, the...
9 June 2019
Trail of lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
The Sixth World ; book 1 After the world floods Dinétah, formerly the Navajo reservation, is utterly changed. The old gods and magics have returned, and with them monsters and so...
5 June 2019
Booksmart dir. by Olivia Wilde
I probably wouldn’t have gone to see this film if it wasn’t for hearing about it on the podcast so thank you Mark Kermode, because this is a really lovely entertaining...
1 June 2019
Badgers, beeches and blisters by Julian Evans, Ken Gill
: tree planting and woodland ownership, Irish edition As part of Biodiversity week there was a talk on trees on nearby organised by Crann, which is a voluntary group devoted to...
1 June 2019
The Eagle [based on the book] by Rosemary Sutcliff dir. by Kevin Macdonald
A long time ago I read Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the Ninth, the book this film is based on. It was a very long time ago, I’m pretty sure I...
27 May 2019
Notes to self by Emilie Pine
This was my book club’s choice for May. I had heard about it before that and had meant to read it but hadn’t gotten around to it before now. Then again,...
25 May 2019