Reviews

Belgium filmmaker Michael Roskam’s first feature-length film, Bullhead, was nominated last year for best foreign language film, which is perhaps a surprise considering its subject – the Flemish underground hormone mafia.  

When a missing 9-year-old girl from a small town in southern Missouri is found dead and a second has gone missing, Frank Curry, the editor from a small Chicago newspaper, sends Camille Preaker to get the scoop.  Both events just happen to have occurred in her hometown, Wind Gap, where her mother, stepfather and younger sister still live and to where Camille has no desire to return.  She comes from a very—maybe dysfunctional is too tame a word to describe her family, but I will say it—dysfunctional family.

Although technically centered on a triple murder investigation, Darynda Jones’ debut novel, First Grave on the Right, is more paranormal romance than mystery. The heroine is an upbeat take on a Grim Reaper.

The setting is Simpson Creek, Texas, July 1868, and Violet Rose Alicia Brookfield and her brother, Edward, Viscount Greyshaw, have just arrived via stagecoach; a stagecoach that, according to Edward, has hit every rut and bump from Indianola on the Gulf coast to Simpson Creek.  If it were not for Violet’s near ruination and disgrace at the hands of

There are more twists and turns in this thriller than a mountain road.  If you like your action fast and furious, then this is the ticket! Gubmint conspiracy – got it! Politics - most certainly. Paranoia- for sure! Shoot outs- more that you can count! Hot rods- check.

After reading Just My Type, people who previously had no idea that font matters will be smitten with typography design. Reading this book will make it impossible for readers to continue looking at magazines, road signs, logos and advertisements with indifference.

When 19 year old Travis arrives home on leave following a tour of duty in Afghanistan he feels out of place.  His parents are getting divorced. His younger brother has stolen his girlfriend and his car.

The much awaited conclusion to The Giver quartet, Son pulls together Lois Lowry’s three previous books in the series—The Giver (1993),

I've been a massive fan of the TV show Doctor Who since I was 13. Even at its worst, the show excites me and inspires me like nothing else. Although principally seen as a science fiction show, it's always played a little fast and loose with real science. Or has it?