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London, 26 October 2022. The London Book Fair (LBF) has today announced the opening of submissions for the 2023 seminar programme, to be delivered when the fair […]

A powerful but uneven clarion call on climate from the great and the good of environmental activismWe are supposed to have solved this problem in just under 30 […]

Legends Of Tomorrow Legends is over now, so I guess we can sum up. They gathered up a bunch of secondary superheroes and villains from Arrow and The Flash, put […]

A salvage diver plumbs mysterious depths in Cormac McCarthy’s glorious sunset song of a novelIt’s the depth of the darkness that spooks Bobby Western, the hau […]

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Anna Pasternak alleged Lara Prescott copied elements of her book about her great uncle Boris’s loverA descendant of the Doctor Zhivago author, Boris Pasternak, h […]

Ender’s Game. Orson Scott Card. 1985. 324 pages. [Source: Bought]First sentence: “I’ve watched through his eyes, I’ve listened through his ears, and I tell you […]

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You Only Live Once, David Bravo. Mark Oshiro. 2022. 381 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: “What if we just don’t go to school?”What I expected: I did not do […]

The great travel writer and transgender pioneer was a mystery to many people, including her biographer, who knew her for 30 yearsIt is an intimidating task to […]

 Monster Of The Week 145 is SoftReboot, some old characters leave, new ones arrive, the credits and theme tune change, even the name gains a subtitle, Monster Of […]

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What looks like altruism through one lens could be seen as corruption through anotherWhat springs to mind when you hear the word cooperation? It increasingly feels […]

Caraval meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer in this deliciously dark young adult fantasy about a girl who makes a deal with a magical secret society to enter a po […]

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  Dementia 13 A very early Francis Ford Coppola film. In an Irish castle a family gathers for a ceremony to remember a drowned daughter. In the opening scene a […]

The American writer is completely committed to the comic, controversial voice of a prison leaver in this energetic, touching novel“Y’all females is all the sam […]

Quinn displays a masterly control of characters and narrative in an intricate, moving novel spanning three centuriesAnthony Quinn’s oeuvre – eight novels, all of […]

  The Soft Animals by Nathan Willis in Cleaver Mom used to make plush animals, but they never sold. Dad suggested she give them away, make new ones. Then one day […]

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Hitty: Her First Hundred Years. Rachel Field. Illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop. 1929. 256 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: The antique shop is very still […]

Beauvallet. Georgette Heyer. 1929. 272 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: The deck was in shambles.Premise/plot: Dona Dominica, the daughter of the former […]

The Matrix Resurrections What is The Matrix? I’m old enough to remember that was the teaser campaign, back in 1999, for the film The Matrix. In that film M […]