Artificial condition by Martha Wells
The Murderbot Diaries ; 2 The whole time I was reading this book1 I kept telling myself to slow down. It is short, only 159 pages2 so I knew that soon...
12 May 2018
The unwomanly face of war by Svetlana Alexievich
translated into English by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky When I saw this mentioned in some magazine or other I had to order it. I was vaguely aware of the Russian...
7 February 2018
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
Discworld series #8 / The City Watch series #1 This is the book. The one that really made me love the Discworld ‘verse. In this we first meet Sam Vimes and...
2 December 2017
Monty Python and the Holy Grail dir. by Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
I’m not quite sure when I first watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail, but I know I wasn’t too young. Certainly a teenager. I’d heard of Monty Python but was...
5 November 2017
Detroit dir. by Kathryn Bigelow
Wow. This is such a great film. I mean, it is so intense and gripping that I never once wanted to look away. It tells the story of a group of...
18 September 2017
H is for hawk by Helen Macdonald
I added this book to my TBR pile way back when it won the Costa Book of the Year award. That was in January 2015, so it has taken me more...
2 September 2017
Keeping the world away by Margaret Forster
Lost, found, stolen, strayed, sold, fought over… This engrossing, beautifully crafted novel follows the fictional adventures, over a hundred years, of an early 20th-century painting and the women whose lives it...
9 May 2017
Testosterone Rex : unmaking the myths of our gendered minds by Cordelia Fine
Rec’d back in Feb by Aarti on Twitter. Testosterone Rex brings together evolutionary science, psychology, neuroscience and social history to move beyond old ‘nature versus nurture’ debates, and to explain why...
14 April 2017
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer
January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find...
1 April 2017
Moonlight dir. by Barry Jenkins
The one word that comes to mind whenever I think about Moonlight is isolation.
17 March 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 has been quite a while since I picked it up....
18 February 2017
The Secret Horses of Briar Hill by Megan Shepherd
Rec’d by Maggie Stiefvater on her tumblr. When I read the first few lines of Stiefvater’s review of The Secret Horses of Briar Hill I knew I had to try it....
13 February 2017
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