The little snake by A. L. Kennedy
I had no idea what this was about when I first picked it up. It was mentioned to me in passing just I finished a book and because of the wonders...
31 May 2020
The call by Peadar Ó Guilín
Grey Land #1 Ireland has been cut off from the rest of the world. No ships, no planes. No email contact, not even radio waves make it in or out of...
5 August 2019
Minor Mage by T. Kingfisher
I just don’t know how Ursula Vernon, aka T. Kingfisher, does it. Every single book/story by her I’ve read I’ve loved, and usually read far too quickly as I try to...
4 August 2019
The apostle dir. by Gareth Evans
Where to start with this film… Well, I guess with where it starts, with a man. Brooding, unhappy. With a past. And a missing sister he must rescue. As for where...
14 October 2018
Hereditary dir. by Ari Aster
The best way to see this film is to know nothing in advance. So if you haven’t seen it stop reading now. Although, in fairness I think that that is good...
16 June 2018
Avengers : Infinity War dir. by Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Given the box office takings I’m guessing you’ve already seen this film. I mean, hasn’t everyone? But nevertheless there shall be no spoilers here, because you just never know do you…...
29 April 2018
The high mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel
This book. I just. Okay, to start with I wasn’t sure I was even going to finish it. Tomás and his fridged wife and his walking backwards. And his troubles with...
25 November 2017
Mort by Terry Pratchett
Death comes to us all. When he came to Mort, he offered him a job.
16 April 2017
Maybe a fox by Alison McGhee, Kathi Appelt
Into thin air, Sylvie goes missing, and as Jules stumbles in grief, a fox cub is born. A shadow fox, spirit and animal in one. From the minute the cub opens...
20 December 2016
Spartacus dir. by Steven S. DeKnight
Watch the story of history’s greatest gladiator unfold with graphic violence and the passions of the women that love them. This is Spartacus. Last week I finally finished watch the whole...
14 August 2016
Way down dark by James Smythe
The Australia trilogy : book 1 There’s one truth on Australia: You fight or you die. Usually both. Seventeen-year-old Chan’s ancestors left a dying Earth hundreds of years ago, in search...
4 June 2016
Hild by Nicola Griffith
Book 1 of The Light of the World trilogy. The world is always changing, but Britain in the seventh century was a time of huge upheaval in society. Christianity is beginning...
17 January 2016
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