Black Panther dir. by Ryan Coogler
This film is so awesome. I loved it. I mean, I’d heard good things before I went, although I did try to ignore most of it because pre-hype doesn’t work for...
18 February 2018
Clockwork Boys by T. Kingfisher
The Clocktaur War ; book 1 Any book by Ursula Vernon (aka T. Kingfihser) is one that I want to read, and as I back her on Patreon I have had...
2 January 2018
Blade Runner 2049 dir. by Denis Villeneuve
Sequel to Blade Runner Set thirty years after the first Blade Runner, this film is not set in our future, but in an alternate future. One that is bleak and brutal...
15 October 2017
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
First read in December 2004, reread in July 2017. I loved this book when I first read it. And loved the tv adaptation that came out last year1 so when Aarti...
14 August 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
Moonlight dir. by Barry Jenkins
The one word that comes to mind whenever I think about Moonlight is isolation.
17 March 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
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Fifteen years ago, Susan Morrow left her first husband Edward Sheffield, an unpublished writer.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 a doctor’s wife, when out of the blue she receives...
10 December 2016
A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
Wayfarers ; #2 Lovelace was once merely a ship’s artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in an new body, following a total system shut-down and reboot, she has no memory of...
31 October 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 young actress searching for the fame she’s always dreamed of....
9 October 2016
Epitaph by Mary Doria Russell
Mary Doria Russell, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Sparrow, returns with Epitaph. An American Iliad, this richly detailed and meticulously researched historical novel continues the story she began in Doc,...
10 May 2016
Cold Steel by Kate Elliott
Book three in the Spiritwalker trilogy. Short, totally spoiler-free review is “aahhhhh, read it!” but three words may not be enough to persuade everyone. So to that I’ll add that this...
1 May 2016
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