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Thursday, 24 January 2019
The past is a foreign country
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In The Go-Between , Leo Colston, aged 60, finds his childhood diary and through its pages relives a traumatic event that impacted the course...
Monday, 14 January 2019
Fast-paced page-turner for horror aficionados
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A creepy castle, a woman in distress, disturbing dreams and much, much more. Rosemary's Baby is a classic gothic horror story that take...
Friday, 11 January 2019
What happens when the ones we love are enemies of the state
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The ones we love ... are enemies of the state, writes Kamila Shamsie in the epigraph to her book Home Fire . The story is about what happen...
Wednesday, 28 November 2018
The giddy carousel of pop
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Oh, the " Giddy Carousel of Pop "! Mark Ellen's amusing and nostalgic memoir brought back many happy music-based memories: Dad...
Friday, 23 November 2018
Sorry Mr Orwell ...
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Perhaps it's a little unfair to award Orwell's collection of 50 essays a mere three out of five stars. Some of the essays are brilli...
Sunday, 18 November 2018
Don't blame the victims
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The Truants begins on a park bench. As dawn approaches, a vampire who has been alive since pre-history, is waiting to end his life. A teena...
Friday, 16 November 2018
The original psycho-biddy
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Henry Farrell's What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? opens in 1908 with the famous child star having a tantrum in public. " What's...
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