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  Moby Dick Herman Melville wrote a book about whaling. Ishmael joins a whaling ship to discover that the captain, Ahab, lost a leg to an especially vicious white […]

The Nigerian writer’s first novel in nearly 50 years is a vivid, shocking story of political corruption in a country much like his homelandWole Soyinka’s new nov […]

Long, long, long ago, when all the world was young and shiny, I could look down a signing line and tell who was a fan, and who was the family member of a fan, […]

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PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (Brian De Palma, 1974)
“There really is a phantom. He was just in my shower. He threatened my life. He said his music wa […]

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The Case of the Bizarre Bouquet. Enola Holmes #3. Nancy Springer. 2008. 170 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: It is difficult to choose a new name for […]

The Case of the Left-Handed Lady (Enola Holmes #2) Nancy Springer. 2007. 234 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: With a shock of astonishment I read the card […]

I do, if I’m talking about the Whole Doctor. If I’m talking about a specific Doctor I’d probably use the appropriate pronoun for that regeneration – Tom Baker w […]

Classical philosophy meets the climate crisis in the Pulitzer prize-winner’s propulsive novel stretching over 700 yearsConstantinople, 1453. A young girl darts t […]

The death of a newcomer to a Guadeloupean community sparks a meandering, fascinating novel about the locals’ interconnected livesWhen the committee for the Nobel p […]

An often moving memoir examines the comedian’s unlikely journey from Big Nights Out to riverbank ruminations with Paul WhitehouseNo one was more surprised than B […]

This dramatisation of Thomas Mann’s private and public life never quite convinces as biography or fictionThe German writer Thomas Mann (1875-1955) defied his b […]

Because that was what the Doctor called her, the first time they saw the TARDIS with the Eleventh Doctor’s eyes. (It’s The Eleventh Hour, by Steven Moffat.)In The […]

Main Drain by Joanna Theiss in Barren Joan returns to the town she lived in when small and gets a job at swim camp, looking after younger kids. One of them gets […]

The pastor’s family at the heart of Franzen’s sixth novel – a bravura examination of the mores of liberal America in 1971 – are his most sympathetic creatio […]

Death doesn’t do the eye of Horus make-up (it’s make up, not a tattoo) until Season of Mists.Here’s her initial appearance in Sandman 8Here she is in Sandman 13

I’d rather do the TV right now than a movie, especially with Sandman. We can let it breathe. I’ve already tried to chop Anansi Boys down to movie size, and the scr […]

Mason plays Desire… they reached out on Twitter and asked me who was casting director as they wanted to try out for the role. And then they crushed the […]

The Case of the Missing Marquess. (Enola Holmes #1) Nancy Springer. 2006. 216 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: I would very much like to know why my mother […]

A body on a houseboat and twists galore in this gripping thriller narrated by the Hollywood actor – plus this week’s other picksThe gripping new thriller from the […]

The youngest presidential inaugural poet in US history on Toni Morrison, the power of language and her debut children’s bookMy earliest reading memoryMy mom b […]