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
Under the pendulum sun by Jeanette Ng
I added this book to my unwieldy Mount TBR because of Smart Bitches description of it as a stunningly different fantasy that mixes Crimson Peak with Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell....
10 June 2018
Old ways old secrets : Pagan Ireland: myth landscape tradition by Jo Kerrigan
I requested this from the library because I came across it on @Justaddbooks’ twitter feed and it looked interesting. I think that I should have read the full blurb before I...
28 January 2018
The serpent and the goddess by Mary Condren
Using Ireland as a case study, this book provides an account of the decline of matriarchal power in Western civilizations and analyzes its implications for today’s women and today’s Catholic Church....
2 July 2017
The Girl who beat isis by Andrea C. Hoffmann, Farida Khalaf
In August 2014, Farida, like any ordinary teenage girl, was enjoying the summer holidays before her last year at school. But Farida lived in the mountains of northern Iraq — and...
16 October 2016
Thursbitch by Alan Garner
Part of my RIP reading Here John Turner was cast away in a heavy snow storm in the night in or about the year 1755. The print of a woman’s shoe...
1 October 2016
The Witch dir. by Robert Eggers
IMDB description : New England, 1630: William and Katherine lead a devout Christian life, homesteading on the edge of an impassible wilderness, with five children. When their newborn son mysteriously vanishes...
21 August 2016
Abide with me by Elizabeth Strout
Tyler Caskey is a minister in a small New England town. His wife, Lauren, passed away just over a year ago. Since then his youngest daughter lives with Tyler’s mother, coming...
6 March 2016
The dazzle of day by Molly Gloss
Dolores Negrete is leaving home, she will be boarding the Dusty Miller along with many other Quakers and leaving the planet, heading for the great unknown of space. Earth is dying....
15 February 2015
Hannah’s Gift by Thomas Eidson
Tucker Gibbons, lawman, is in pursuit of some criminals. He has been tracking them for months, ever since they raped and murdered his neighbours. It is his last fugitive hunt. After...
15 November 2014
A most wanted man [based on the book] by John le Carré dir. by Anton Corbijn
The Sept 11th attacks were formulated and planned in Hamburg, Germany. Now, in an attempt to prevent terrorist cells, a small semi-illegal German spy ring operates there. Led by Gunther they...
15 September 2014
The voice that thunders by Alan Garner
Earlier this year I read The Owl Service by Alan Garner, and I had many many thoughts about it, and I enjoyed it a huge amount even if I wasn’t sure...
27 August 2014
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