Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
Lord Blackheart is, as you might suspect from the name, an evil villain. The biggest name in supervillainy! and one day a …
End of Watch dir. by David Ayer
The opening voice-over to this film was almost enough to make me turn if off straight away, but then I would have …
A Slip of the Keyboard by Terry Pratchett
A week or two before Terry Pratchett died A slip of the keyboard and A blink of the screen arrived for me …
Do butlers burgle banks? by P.G. Wodehouse
Read originally 19/07/2010. Reread June 2014 On my reread I enjoyed it just as much as the first time round, if not …
Adam’s Rib dir. by George Cukor
Warren Attinger has been a bad husband, but his wife, Doris, has caught him out. She follows him one day and when …
The Android’s Dream by John Scalzi
Part of my Sci-Fi 2014 Experience When a book opens with a death by farting, two deaths by farting actually, you know …
Snuff by Terry Pratchett
A Discworld Night Watch story. Although the Night Watch is now the city watch, and this isn’t set in the city… still. …
It all seemed a bit out of order to me. Yes, I thought it was offensive and no, I didn’t find it funny… but I don’t remember arriving at a place where we decided we had a right to not be offended. I don’t like the sound of that place. I don’t like it at all.
Lady of Quality by Georgette Heyer
ISBN: 033236490 Miss Annis Wychwood is in her late twenties, and as she is still unmarried, she believes her future to hold …
Unseen academicals by Terry Pratchett
9780385609340 In the back streets of Ankh-Morpork football is king. And those “Faces” in the shove, or crowd, are just as important …
The BFG by Roald Dahl
by Roald Dahl
Sophie couldn’t sleep.
A brilliant moonbeam was slanting through a gap in the curtains. It was shining right on to her pillow.
One night, a young girl, unable to sleep makes her way to the window and spies a mysterious giant, with a suitcase and some sort of a trumpet. Discovering that he has been spotted this giant kidnaps the little girl, Sophie, and takes her off to Giant Country. There Sophie discovers that this giant, The Big Friendly Giant, is not like the other giants. He is much smaller than them for one thing, but also, they are murderers who delight in guzzling up human beans, whereas the BFG is only interested in sharing Dreams with people. Can Sophie and the BFG come up with a plan to defeat the like of The Fleshlumpeater and The Childchewer.