Captain Marvel dir. by Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck
I wasn’t sure what to expect from Captain Marvel, I don’t think I’ve ever read any of Carol Danver’s comics, but...
9 March 2019
Tin Man by Sarah Winman
My book club chose this for the January meeting, and although I hadn’t even started it when the book club met...
13 January 2019
Anatomy of a scanal by Sarah Vaughan
Told from a variety of point of views, and interspersed with flashbacks this book starts off with an affair that turns...
24 June 2018
Wild : a journey from lost to found by Cheryl Strayed
Sometimes the blurb of a book can be a tad off putting. I remember when I first became aware of Wild...
21 April 2018
I, Tonya dir. by Craig Gillespie
Back in 1994 I was 15, and I didn’t have any real interest in figure skating. So vague stories of “the...
18 March 2018
The fugitive dir. by Andrew Davies
Do you remember when it was a big deal when a film came on the telly? I can remember the hype...
5 November 2017
Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory
The Amazing Telemachus Family were about to reach dizzying heights of fame and fortune in the 1970s, when a live television...
13 October 2017
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
Good Omens is one of my all time favourite books. I’ve read it and reread it so many times. But it...
18 February 2017
Tony and Susan by Austin Wright
Fifteen years ago, Susan Morrow left her first husband Edward Sheffield, an unpublished writer. Now, she’s enduring middle class suburbia as...
10 December 2016
The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride
Upon her arrival in London, an 18-year-old Irish girl begins anew as a drama student, with all the hopes of any...
9 October 2016
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Olive Kitteridge would not be regarded by most people as a nice woman. She is stern. Unforgiving. The scariest teacher in...
9 November 2015
Anna Who by Bernadette Leach
So last week on twitter I spotted this tweet : Anna Who for me – and I know @oneilllo is a...
10 October 2015
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