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Gregory Porter – All Rise Review. I have been immersing myself in Gregory Porter’s new album All Rise throughout the week. Contentedly and lavishly soaking in the feel-good vibes. Porter is smoother than smooth, cooler than cool. It’s incredibly indulgent and such a sound for sore ears in these incredibly difficult times. BOOK REVIEW: THE DRESSMAKER'S GIFT BY FIONA VALPY Book Review: The Dressmaker’s Gift by Fiona Valpy. Despite its synopsis promising a complex, intergenerational tale of family secrets, wartime betrayals and a dark past to unravel, it becomes very clear early on that the Dressmaker’s Gift by Fiona Valpy is actually more a story of two disparate parts. While the war-torn world of 1940s BOOK REVIEW: LONER BY GEORGINA YOUNG Loner, the debut novel from Georgina Young, is a fantastic evocation of the numerous way in which those first steps into adulthood can be the absolute worst, especially for young people who don’t fit neatly into the societal mould. It’s clear that Lona is a smart person. She thinks and thinks and thinks. That, in some ways, is her problem. BOOK REVIEW: US THREE BY RUTH JONES Us Three is a book that’s been split into three main parts, and the very nature of that structure means that there really is something in this novel for everyone to enjoy. The first part picks up with the girls as bright, young eighteen-year-olds, still confident in their unwavering friendship and giddy with the excitement of both their upcoming holiday adventure and the future upon their BOOK REVIEW: TOO MARVELLOUS FOR WORDS BY JULIE WELCH The background given on former Games mistress Coulo was by far the most illuminating and it’s a shame that it was a ‘potted’ version. Too Marvellous for Words is an entertaining ‘fly on the wall’ glimpse into a bygone era and a worthwhile read for anyone who’d like to know what boarding school life was like. ★★★★. BOOK REVIEW: ISABELLE IN THE AFTERNOON BY DOUGLAS KENNEDY Douglas Kennedy’s Isabelle in the Afternoon captured my attention with its premise: a love affair set in Paris in the 1970s. It kept my attention by having so much more story to tell. As intimate and passionate as it is poignant, the strength of this novel comes from its complete normality, foregoing wild plot twists and dramatic high tensions for the quiet yet powerful exploration of one BOOK REVIEW: WONDERLAND BY JUNO DAWSON Wonderland is an extravagant, fun and witty adventure, and an absorbing read from start to finish. Alice is a charming and complex character who draws you to her with a vulnerability and the kind of teen desires that so many can relate to. Dawson has created a superb novel and a fabulous addition to the multi-verse of Alices inWonderlands.
BOOK REVIEW: THE OFFING BY BENJAMIN MYERS The Offing is quite refreshing in the smallness of scope – it’s just the simple tale of a friendship between a young man and an older lady. The stakes are low, there is no tension. And that’s fine. Though the florid nature of Myers’ language can be maddening, the story of Robert and Dulcie is charm itself. ★★★. ROUGH JUSTICE REVIEW: A SOLID INTERNATIONAL CRIME DRAMA Based on the novels by Toni Coppers, and using a mixture of existing stories and new ideas, Rough Justice doesn’t deviate too far from the tried and tested crime formula but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes you need to play to the strengths BOOK REVIEW: THE FOUNDLING BY STACEY HALLS Stacey Halls’ The Foundling transports readers to Georgian London as it centres on two women from different backgrounds who are bound by the same child. Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter at the foundling hospital, Bess Bright returns with money to collect her child only to find that someone else has beaten her to it, using Bess’ name to fraudulently claim the little girl asGREGORY PORTER
Gregory Porter – All Rise Review. I have been immersing myself in Gregory Porter’s new album All Rise throughout the week. Contentedly and lavishly soaking in the feel-good vibes. Porter is smoother than smooth, cooler than cool. It’s incredibly indulgent and such a sound for sore ears in these incredibly difficult times. BOOK REVIEW: THE DRESSMAKER'S GIFT BY FIONA VALPY Book Review: The Dressmaker’s Gift by Fiona Valpy. Despite its synopsis promising a complex, intergenerational tale of family secrets, wartime betrayals and a dark past to unravel, it becomes very clear early on that the Dressmaker’s Gift by Fiona Valpy is actually more a story of two disparate parts. While the war-torn world of 1940s BOOK REVIEW: LONER BY GEORGINA YOUNG Loner, the debut novel from Georgina Young, is a fantastic evocation of the numerous way in which those first steps into adulthood can be the absolute worst, especially for young people who don’t fit neatly into the societal mould. It’s clear that Lona is a smart person. She thinks and thinks and thinks. That, in some ways, is her problem. BOOK REVIEW: US THREE BY RUTH JONES Us Three is a book that’s been split into three main parts, and the very nature of that structure means that there really is something in this novel for everyone to enjoy. The first part picks up with the girls as bright, young eighteen-year-olds, still confident in their unwavering friendship and giddy with the excitement of both their upcoming holiday adventure and the future upon their BOOK REVIEW: TOO MARVELLOUS FOR WORDS BY JULIE WELCH The background given on former Games mistress Coulo was by far the most illuminating and it’s a shame that it was a ‘potted’ version. Too Marvellous for Words is an entertaining ‘fly on the wall’ glimpse into a bygone era and a worthwhile read for anyone who’d like to know what boarding school life was like. ★★★★. BOOK REVIEW: ISABELLE IN THE AFTERNOON BY DOUGLAS KENNEDY Douglas Kennedy’s Isabelle in the Afternoon captured my attention with its premise: a love affair set in Paris in the 1970s. It kept my attention by having so much more story to tell. As intimate and passionate as it is poignant, the strength of this novel comes from its complete normality, foregoing wild plot twists and dramatic high tensions for the quiet yet powerful exploration of one BOOK REVIEW: WONDERLAND BY JUNO DAWSON Wonderland is an extravagant, fun and witty adventure, and an absorbing read from start to finish. Alice is a charming and complex character who draws you to her with a vulnerability and the kind of teen desires that so many can relate to. Dawson has created a superb novel and a fabulous addition to the multi-verse of Alices inWonderlands.
BOOK REVIEW: THE OFFING BY BENJAMIN MYERS The Offing is quite refreshing in the smallness of scope – it’s just the simple tale of a friendship between a young man and an older lady. The stakes are low, there is no tension. And that’s fine. Though the florid nature of Myers’ language can be maddening, the story of Robert and Dulcie is charm itself. ★★★. ROUGH JUSTICE REVIEW: A SOLID INTERNATIONAL CRIME DRAMA Based on the novels by Toni Coppers, and using a mixture of existing stories and new ideas, Rough Justice doesn’t deviate too far from the tried and tested crime formula but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes you need to play to the strengths BOOK REVIEW: SEPARATION ANXIETY BY LAURA ZIGMAN In Separation Anxiety, Laura Zigman shows us the awkward, funny, painful journey of a woman learning to live without hers – at least some of the time. Like its messy, flawed heroine, Separation Anxiety is so easy to relate to, and to love. ★★★★★. Separation Anxiety is published by Doubleday on 16 April 2020. BOOK REVIEW: REALM BREAKER BY VICTORIA AVEYARD By self-admission, Victoria Aveyard was extremely intimidated by the prospect of writing her latest book, Realm Breaker. Her debut YA fantasy novel, Red Queen, and its subsequent three sequels were hugely popular – putting the American author on the fantasy map in her early-twenties, just after she’d graduated from university. TOP 5 FEMALE ROBOTS IN SCI-FI MOVIES Maria – Metropolis (1927) The original and the ultimate celluloid female robot has to be Maria, the maschinenmensch (human machine) from Fritz Lang’s 1927 masterpiece, Metropolis. In an attempt to resurrect the woman he fell in love with, mad scientist and inventor Rotwang creates the robot Maria in her image- epitomising the eleganceof
BOOK REVIEW: ON MIDNIGHT BEACH BY MARIE-LOUISE FITZPATRICK Inspired by the old Irish legend known as the Táin Bó Cúailnge, Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick’s On Midnight Beach is a coming-of-age story of love, loyalty, community, deep-rooted feuds and tragedy of Shakespearean proportions. It’s set during a long, hot summer in 1976 and tells an intoxicating tale of hostility between two opposing towns in Ireland whose long-standing grudge bubbles overSONITA REVIEW
Sonita Review. Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music. Directed by: Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami. Starring: Sonita Alizadeh & Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami. Sonita Alizadeh could be any star struck teenager in the west when we first meet her. She’s busy pasting her face over a picture of Rihanna and dreaming of performing on stage in front ofthousands.
BOOK REVIEW: BLACK WATER SISTER BY ZEN CHO Recent Harvard graduate Jess has, to put it mildly, a lot on her plate. Although she’s lived in America for the majority of her life, health and financial troubles force her parents to return to their native Malaysia, and Jess goes with them. REALM BREAKER ARCHIVES By self-admission, Victoria Aveyard was extremely intimidated by the prospect of writing her latest book, Realm Breaker. Her debut YA fantasy novel, Red Queen, BOOK REVIEW: THE UNION OF SYNCHRONISED SWIMMERS BY The Union Of Synchronised Swimmers is an unusual book. For one thing, it’s hard to understand without reading the blurb. Digging straight in, it would be easy to miss the relation between the six short stories and the tale that links them all, which centres on an unnamed team of young female synchronised swimmers from behind the IronCurtain.
CARMEN AND LOLA ARCHIVES Carmen (Rosy RodrÃguez) is about to get engaged to her boyfriend Rafa (Juan José Jiménez). She meets Rafa’s cousin Lola (Zaira Romero), a closeted lesbian and b JAMIE O'CONNELL ARCHIVES The extract is from the opening scene from the first chapter of Diving for Pearls. It follows Assim, a gay Emirati man studying medicine inIreland.
BOOK REVIEW: THE FOUNDLING BY STACEY HALLS Stacey Halls’ The Foundling transports readers to Georgian London as it centres on two women from different backgrounds who are bound by the same child. Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter at the foundling hospital, Bess Bright returns with money to collect her child only to find that someone else has beaten her to it, using Bess’ name to fraudulently claim the little girl asGREGORY PORTER
Gregory Porter – All Rise Review. I have been immersing myself in Gregory Porter’s new album All Rise throughout the week. Contentedly and lavishly soaking in the feel-good vibes. Porter is smoother than smooth, cooler than cool. It’s incredibly indulgent and such a sound for sore ears in these incredibly difficult times. BOOK REVIEW: THE DRESSMAKER'S GIFT BY FIONA VALPY Book Review: The Dressmaker’s Gift by Fiona Valpy. Despite its synopsis promising a complex, intergenerational tale of family secrets, wartime betrayals and a dark past to unravel, it becomes very clear early on that the Dressmaker’s Gift by Fiona Valpy is actually more a story of two disparate parts. While the war-torn world of 1940s BOOK REVIEW: LONER BY GEORGINA YOUNG Loner, the debut novel from Georgina Young, is a fantastic evocation of the numerous way in which those first steps into adulthood can be the absolute worst, especially for young people who don’t fit neatly into the societal mould. It’s clear that Lona is a smart person. She thinks and thinks and thinks. That, in some ways, is her problem. BOOK REVIEW: US THREE BY RUTH JONES Us Three is a book that’s been split into three main parts, and the very nature of that structure means that there really is something in this novel for everyone to enjoy. The first part picks up with the girls as bright, young eighteen-year-olds, still confident in their unwavering friendship and giddy with the excitement of both their upcoming holiday adventure and the future upon their BOOK REVIEW: TOO MARVELLOUS FOR WORDS BY JULIE WELCH The background given on former Games mistress Coulo was by far the most illuminating and it’s a shame that it was a ‘potted’ version. Too Marvellous for Words is an entertaining ‘fly on the wall’ glimpse into a bygone era and a worthwhile read for anyone who’d like to know what boarding school life was like. ★★★★. BOOK REVIEW: ISABELLE IN THE AFTERNOON BY DOUGLAS KENNEDY Douglas Kennedy’s Isabelle in the Afternoon captured my attention with its premise: a love affair set in Paris in the 1970s. It kept my attention by having so much more story to tell. As intimate and passionate as it is poignant, the strength of this novel comes from its complete normality, foregoing wild plot twists and dramatic high tensions for the quiet yet powerful exploration of one BOOK REVIEW: WONDERLAND BY JUNO DAWSON Wonderland is an extravagant, fun and witty adventure, and an absorbing read from start to finish. Alice is a charming and complex character who draws you to her with a vulnerability and the kind of teen desires that so many can relate to. Dawson has created a superb novel and a fabulous addition to the multi-verse of Alices inWonderlands.
BOOK REVIEW: THE OFFING BY BENJAMIN MYERS The Offing is quite refreshing in the smallness of scope – it’s just the simple tale of a friendship between a young man and an older lady. The stakes are low, there is no tension. And that’s fine. Though the florid nature of Myers’ language can be maddening, the story of Robert and Dulcie is charm itself. ★★★. ROUGH JUSTICE REVIEW: A SOLID INTERNATIONAL CRIME DRAMA Based on the novels by Toni Coppers, and using a mixture of existing stories and new ideas, Rough Justice doesn’t deviate too far from the tried and tested crime formula but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes you need to play to the strengths BOOK REVIEW: THE FOUNDLING BY STACEY HALLS Stacey Halls’ The Foundling transports readers to Georgian London as it centres on two women from different backgrounds who are bound by the same child. Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter at the foundling hospital, Bess Bright returns with money to collect her child only to find that someone else has beaten her to it, using Bess’ name to fraudulently claim the little girl asGREGORY PORTER
Gregory Porter – All Rise Review. I have been immersing myself in Gregory Porter’s new album All Rise throughout the week. Contentedly and lavishly soaking in the feel-good vibes. Porter is smoother than smooth, cooler than cool. It’s incredibly indulgent and such a sound for sore ears in these incredibly difficult times. BOOK REVIEW: THE DRESSMAKER'S GIFT BY FIONA VALPY Book Review: The Dressmaker’s Gift by Fiona Valpy. Despite its synopsis promising a complex, intergenerational tale of family secrets, wartime betrayals and a dark past to unravel, it becomes very clear early on that the Dressmaker’s Gift by Fiona Valpy is actually more a story of two disparate parts. While the war-torn world of 1940s BOOK REVIEW: LONER BY GEORGINA YOUNG Loner, the debut novel from Georgina Young, is a fantastic evocation of the numerous way in which those first steps into adulthood can be the absolute worst, especially for young people who don’t fit neatly into the societal mould. It’s clear that Lona is a smart person. She thinks and thinks and thinks. That, in some ways, is her problem. BOOK REVIEW: US THREE BY RUTH JONES Us Three is a book that’s been split into three main parts, and the very nature of that structure means that there really is something in this novel for everyone to enjoy. The first part picks up with the girls as bright, young eighteen-year-olds, still confident in their unwavering friendship and giddy with the excitement of both their upcoming holiday adventure and the future upon their BOOK REVIEW: TOO MARVELLOUS FOR WORDS BY JULIE WELCH The background given on former Games mistress Coulo was by far the most illuminating and it’s a shame that it was a ‘potted’ version. Too Marvellous for Words is an entertaining ‘fly on the wall’ glimpse into a bygone era and a worthwhile read for anyone who’d like to know what boarding school life was like. ★★★★. BOOK REVIEW: ISABELLE IN THE AFTERNOON BY DOUGLAS KENNEDY Douglas Kennedy’s Isabelle in the Afternoon captured my attention with its premise: a love affair set in Paris in the 1970s. It kept my attention by having so much more story to tell. As intimate and passionate as it is poignant, the strength of this novel comes from its complete normality, foregoing wild plot twists and dramatic high tensions for the quiet yet powerful exploration of one BOOK REVIEW: WONDERLAND BY JUNO DAWSON Wonderland is an extravagant, fun and witty adventure, and an absorbing read from start to finish. Alice is a charming and complex character who draws you to her with a vulnerability and the kind of teen desires that so many can relate to. Dawson has created a superb novel and a fabulous addition to the multi-verse of Alices inWonderlands.
BOOK REVIEW: THE OFFING BY BENJAMIN MYERS The Offing is quite refreshing in the smallness of scope – it’s just the simple tale of a friendship between a young man and an older lady. The stakes are low, there is no tension. And that’s fine. Though the florid nature of Myers’ language can be maddening, the story of Robert and Dulcie is charm itself. ★★★. ROUGH JUSTICE REVIEW: A SOLID INTERNATIONAL CRIME DRAMA Based on the novels by Toni Coppers, and using a mixture of existing stories and new ideas, Rough Justice doesn’t deviate too far from the tried and tested crime formula but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes you need to play to the strengths BOOK REVIEW: SEPARATION ANXIETY BY LAURA ZIGMAN In Separation Anxiety, Laura Zigman shows us the awkward, funny, painful journey of a woman learning to live without hers – at least some of the time. Like its messy, flawed heroine, Separation Anxiety is so easy to relate to, and to love. ★★★★★. Separation Anxiety is published by Doubleday on 16 April 2020. BOOK REVIEW: REALM BREAKER BY VICTORIA AVEYARD By self-admission, Victoria Aveyard was extremely intimidated by the prospect of writing her latest book, Realm Breaker. Her debut YA fantasy novel, Red Queen, and its subsequent three sequels were hugely popular – putting the American author on the fantasy map in her early-twenties, just after she’d graduated from university. TOP 5 FEMALE ROBOTS IN SCI-FI MOVIES Maria – Metropolis (1927) The original and the ultimate celluloid female robot has to be Maria, the maschinenmensch (human machine) from Fritz Lang’s 1927 masterpiece, Metropolis. In an attempt to resurrect the woman he fell in love with, mad scientist and inventor Rotwang creates the robot Maria in her image- epitomising the eleganceof
BOOK REVIEW: ON MIDNIGHT BEACH BY MARIE-LOUISE FITZPATRICK Inspired by the old Irish legend known as the Táin Bó Cúailnge, Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick’s On Midnight Beach is a coming-of-age story of love, loyalty, community, deep-rooted feuds and tragedy of Shakespearean proportions. It’s set during a long, hot summer in 1976 and tells an intoxicating tale of hostility between two opposing towns in Ireland whose long-standing grudge bubbles overSONITA REVIEW
Sonita Review. Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music. Directed by: Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami. Starring: Sonita Alizadeh & Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami. Sonita Alizadeh could be any star struck teenager in the west when we first meet her. She’s busy pasting her face over a picture of Rihanna and dreaming of performing on stage in front ofthousands.
BOOK REVIEW: BLACK WATER SISTER BY ZEN CHO Recent Harvard graduate Jess has, to put it mildly, a lot on her plate. Although she’s lived in America for the majority of her life, health and financial troubles force her parents to return to their native Malaysia, and Jess goes with them. REALM BREAKER ARCHIVES By self-admission, Victoria Aveyard was extremely intimidated by the prospect of writing her latest book, Realm Breaker. Her debut YA fantasy novel, Red Queen, BOOK REVIEW: THE UNION OF SYNCHRONISED SWIMMERS BY The Union Of Synchronised Swimmers is an unusual book. For one thing, it’s hard to understand without reading the blurb. Digging straight in, it would be easy to miss the relation between the six short stories and the tale that links them all, which centres on an unnamed team of young female synchronised swimmers from behind the IronCurtain.
CARMEN AND LOLA ARCHIVES Carmen (Rosy RodrÃguez) is about to get engaged to her boyfriend Rafa (Juan José Jiménez). She meets Rafa’s cousin Lola (Zaira Romero), a closeted lesbian and b JAMIE O'CONNELL ARCHIVES The extract is from the opening scene from the first chapter of Diving for Pearls. It follows Assim, a gay Emirati man studying medicine inIreland.
BOOK REVIEW: THE FOUNDLING BY STACEY HALLS Stacey Halls’ The Foundling transports readers to Georgian London as it centres on two women from different backgrounds who are bound by the same child. Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter at the foundling hospital, Bess Bright returns with money to collect her child only to find that someone else has beaten her to it, using Bess’ name to fraudulently claim the little girl asGREGORY PORTER
Gregory Porter – All Rise Review. I have been immersing myself in Gregory Porter’s new album All Rise throughout the week. Contentedly and lavishly soaking in the feel-good vibes. Porter is smoother than smooth, cooler than cool. It’s incredibly indulgent and such a sound for sore ears in these incredibly difficult times. BOOK REVIEW: THE DRESSMAKER'S GIFT BY FIONA VALPY Book Review: The Dressmaker’s Gift by Fiona Valpy. Despite its synopsis promising a complex, intergenerational tale of family secrets, wartime betrayals and a dark past to unravel, it becomes very clear early on that the Dressmaker’s Gift by Fiona Valpy is actually more a story of two disparate parts. While the war-torn world of 1940s BOOK REVIEW: LONER BY GEORGINA YOUNG Loner, the debut novel from Georgina Young, is a fantastic evocation of the numerous way in which those first steps into adulthood can be the absolute worst, especially for young people who don’t fit neatly into the societal mould. It’s clear that Lona is a smart person. She thinks and thinks and thinks. That, in some ways, is her problem. BOOK REVIEW: US THREE BY RUTH JONES Us Three is a book that’s been split into three main parts, and the very nature of that structure means that there really is something in this novel for everyone to enjoy. The first part picks up with the girls as bright, young eighteen-year-olds, still confident in their unwavering friendship and giddy with the excitement of both their upcoming holiday adventure and the future upon their BOOK REVIEW: TOO MARVELLOUS FOR WORDS BY JULIE WELCH The background given on former Games mistress Coulo was by far the most illuminating and it’s a shame that it was a ‘potted’ version. Too Marvellous for Words is an entertaining ‘fly on the wall’ glimpse into a bygone era and a worthwhile read for anyone who’d like to know what boarding school life was like. ★★★★. BOOK REVIEW: ISABELLE IN THE AFTERNOON BY DOUGLAS KENNEDY Douglas Kennedy’s Isabelle in the Afternoon captured my attention with its premise: a love affair set in Paris in the 1970s. It kept my attention by having so much more story to tell. As intimate and passionate as it is poignant, the strength of this novel comes from its complete normality, foregoing wild plot twists and dramatic high tensions for the quiet yet powerful exploration of one BOOK REVIEW: WONDERLAND BY JUNO DAWSON Wonderland is an extravagant, fun and witty adventure, and an absorbing read from start to finish. Alice is a charming and complex character who draws you to her with a vulnerability and the kind of teen desires that so many can relate to. Dawson has created a superb novel and a fabulous addition to the multi-verse of Alices inWonderlands.
BOOK REVIEW: THE OFFING BY BENJAMIN MYERS The Offing is quite refreshing in the smallness of scope – it’s just the simple tale of a friendship between a young man and an older lady. The stakes are low, there is no tension. And that’s fine. Though the florid nature of Myers’ language can be maddening, the story of Robert and Dulcie is charm itself. ★★★. ROUGH JUSTICE REVIEW: A SOLID INTERNATIONAL CRIME DRAMA Based on the novels by Toni Coppers, and using a mixture of existing stories and new ideas, Rough Justice doesn’t deviate too far from the tried and tested crime formula but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes you need to play to the strengths BOOK REVIEW: THE FOUNDLING BY STACEY HALLS Stacey Halls’ The Foundling transports readers to Georgian London as it centres on two women from different backgrounds who are bound by the same child. Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter at the foundling hospital, Bess Bright returns with money to collect her child only to find that someone else has beaten her to it, using Bess’ name to fraudulently claim the little girl asGREGORY PORTER
Gregory Porter – All Rise Review. I have been immersing myself in Gregory Porter’s new album All Rise throughout the week. Contentedly and lavishly soaking in the feel-good vibes. Porter is smoother than smooth, cooler than cool. It’s incredibly indulgent and such a sound for sore ears in these incredibly difficult times. BOOK REVIEW: THE DRESSMAKER'S GIFT BY FIONA VALPY Book Review: The Dressmaker’s Gift by Fiona Valpy. Despite its synopsis promising a complex, intergenerational tale of family secrets, wartime betrayals and a dark past to unravel, it becomes very clear early on that the Dressmaker’s Gift by Fiona Valpy is actually more a story of two disparate parts. While the war-torn world of 1940s BOOK REVIEW: LONER BY GEORGINA YOUNG Loner, the debut novel from Georgina Young, is a fantastic evocation of the numerous way in which those first steps into adulthood can be the absolute worst, especially for young people who don’t fit neatly into the societal mould. It’s clear that Lona is a smart person. She thinks and thinks and thinks. That, in some ways, is her problem. BOOK REVIEW: US THREE BY RUTH JONES Us Three is a book that’s been split into three main parts, and the very nature of that structure means that there really is something in this novel for everyone to enjoy. The first part picks up with the girls as bright, young eighteen-year-olds, still confident in their unwavering friendship and giddy with the excitement of both their upcoming holiday adventure and the future upon their BOOK REVIEW: TOO MARVELLOUS FOR WORDS BY JULIE WELCH The background given on former Games mistress Coulo was by far the most illuminating and it’s a shame that it was a ‘potted’ version. Too Marvellous for Words is an entertaining ‘fly on the wall’ glimpse into a bygone era and a worthwhile read for anyone who’d like to know what boarding school life was like. ★★★★. BOOK REVIEW: ISABELLE IN THE AFTERNOON BY DOUGLAS KENNEDY Douglas Kennedy’s Isabelle in the Afternoon captured my attention with its premise: a love affair set in Paris in the 1970s. It kept my attention by having so much more story to tell. As intimate and passionate as it is poignant, the strength of this novel comes from its complete normality, foregoing wild plot twists and dramatic high tensions for the quiet yet powerful exploration of one BOOK REVIEW: WONDERLAND BY JUNO DAWSON Wonderland is an extravagant, fun and witty adventure, and an absorbing read from start to finish. Alice is a charming and complex character who draws you to her with a vulnerability and the kind of teen desires that so many can relate to. Dawson has created a superb novel and a fabulous addition to the multi-verse of Alices inWonderlands.
BOOK REVIEW: THE OFFING BY BENJAMIN MYERS The Offing is quite refreshing in the smallness of scope – it’s just the simple tale of a friendship between a young man and an older lady. The stakes are low, there is no tension. And that’s fine. Though the florid nature of Myers’ language can be maddening, the story of Robert and Dulcie is charm itself. ★★★. ROUGH JUSTICE REVIEW: A SOLID INTERNATIONAL CRIME DRAMA Based on the novels by Toni Coppers, and using a mixture of existing stories and new ideas, Rough Justice doesn’t deviate too far from the tried and tested crime formula but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes you need to play to the strengths BOOK REVIEW: REALM BREAKER BY VICTORIA AVEYARD By self-admission, Victoria Aveyard was extremely intimidated by the prospect of writing her latest book, Realm Breaker. Her debut YA fantasy novel, Red Queen, and its subsequent three sequels were hugely popular – putting the American author on the fantasy map in her early-twenties, just after she’d graduated from university. CARMEN AND LOLA ARCHIVES Carmen (Rosy RodrÃguez) is about to get engaged to her boyfriend Rafa (Juan José Jiménez). She meets Rafa’s cousin Lola (Zaira Romero), a closeted lesbian and b BOOK REVIEW: BLACK WATER SISTER BY ZEN CHO Recent Harvard graduate Jess has, to put it mildly, a lot on her plate. Although she’s lived in America for the majority of her life, health and financial troubles force her parents to return to their native Malaysia, and Jess goes with them. BOOK REVIEW: SEPARATION ANXIETY BY LAURA ZIGMAN In Separation Anxiety, Laura Zigman shows us the awkward, funny, painful journey of a woman learning to live without hers – at least some of the time. Like its messy, flawed heroine, Separation Anxiety is so easy to relate to, and to love. ★★★★★. Separation Anxiety is published by Doubleday on 16 April 2020. 5 BOOKS THAT DESERVE AN ADAPTATION Carry on reading to discover the top 5 books that we think deserve an adaptation. 5. Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde (Recommended by Sophie) Definitely not to be confused with E. L. James’ book with a very similar name, Jasper Fforde’s Shades of Grey (subtitled ‘ The Road to High Saffron’) is a fantasy of a very different kind.SONITA REVIEW
Sonita Review. Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music. Directed by: Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami. Starring: Sonita Alizadeh & Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami. Sonita Alizadeh could be any star struck teenager in the west when we first meet her. She’s busy pasting her face over a picture of Rihanna and dreaming of performing on stage in front ofthousands.
TOP 5 FEMALE ROBOTS IN SCI-FI MOVIES Maria – Metropolis (1927) The original and the ultimate celluloid female robot has to be Maria, the maschinenmensch (human machine) from Fritz Lang’s 1927 masterpiece, Metropolis. In an attempt to resurrect the woman he fell in love with, mad scientist and inventor Rotwang creates the robot Maria in her image- epitomising the eleganceof
JAMIE O'CONNELL ARCHIVES The extract is from the opening scene from the first chapter of Diving for Pearls. It follows Assim, a gay Emirati man studying medicine inIreland.
BOOK REVIEW: BLUE DOG BY LOUIS DE BERNIÈRES Books come in all shapes and sizes, and Louis de Bernières new novel Blue Dog, a prequel to 2001’s bestselling Red Dog, is a pleasingly presented book that’s the perfect size for those who enjoy ‘bite-sized’ novels.However, don’t be fooled by the smallness of this book because it’s a real gem. BOOK REVIEW: ON MIDNIGHT BEACH BY MARIE-LOUISE FITZPATRICK Inspired by the old Irish legend known as the Táin Bó Cúailnge, Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick’s On Midnight Beach is a coming-of-age story of love, loyalty, community, deep-rooted feuds and tragedy of Shakespearean proportions. It’s set during a long, hot summer in 1976 and tells an intoxicating tale of hostility between two opposing towns in Ireland whose long-standing grudge bubbles over BOOK REVIEW: THE FOUNDLING BY STACEY HALLS Stacey Halls’ The Foundling transports readers to Georgian London as it centres on two women from different backgrounds who are bound by the same child. Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter at the foundling hospital, Bess Bright returns with money to collect her child only to find that someone else has beaten her to it, using Bess’ name to fraudulently claim the little girl asGREGORY PORTER
Gregory Porter – All Rise Review. I have been immersing myself in Gregory Porter’s new album All Rise throughout the week. Contentedly and lavishly soaking in the feel-good vibes. Porter is smoother than smooth, cooler than cool. It’s incredibly indulgent and such a sound for sore ears in these incredibly difficult times. BOOK REVIEW: THE DRESSMAKER'S GIFT BY FIONA VALPY Book Review: The Dressmaker’s Gift by Fiona Valpy. Despite its synopsis promising a complex, intergenerational tale of family secrets, wartime betrayals and a dark past to unravel, it becomes very clear early on that the Dressmaker’s Gift by Fiona Valpy is actually more a story of two disparate parts. While the war-torn world of 1940s BOOK REVIEW: LONER BY GEORGINA YOUNG Loner, the debut novel from Georgina Young, is a fantastic evocation of the numerous way in which those first steps into adulthood can be the absolute worst, especially for young people who don’t fit neatly into the societal mould. It’s clear that Lona is a smart person. She thinks and thinks and thinks. That, in some ways, is her problem. BOOK REVIEW: US THREE BY RUTH JONES Us Three is a book that’s been split into three main parts, and the very nature of that structure means that there really is something in this novel for everyone to enjoy. The first part picks up with the girls as bright, young eighteen-year-olds, still confident in their unwavering friendship and giddy with the excitement of both their upcoming holiday adventure and the future upon their BOOK REVIEW: TOO MARVELLOUS FOR WORDS BY JULIE WELCH The background given on former Games mistress Coulo was by far the most illuminating and it’s a shame that it was a ‘potted’ version. Too Marvellous for Words is an entertaining ‘fly on the wall’ glimpse into a bygone era and a worthwhile read for anyone who’d like to know what boarding school life was like. ★★★★. BOOK REVIEW: ISABELLE IN THE AFTERNOON BY DOUGLAS KENNEDY Douglas Kennedy’s Isabelle in the Afternoon captured my attention with its premise: a love affair set in Paris in the 1970s. It kept my attention by having so much more story to tell. As intimate and passionate as it is poignant, the strength of this novel comes from its complete normality, foregoing wild plot twists and dramatic high tensions for the quiet yet powerful exploration of one BOOK REVIEW: WONDERLAND BY JUNO DAWSON Wonderland is an extravagant, fun and witty adventure, and an absorbing read from start to finish. Alice is a charming and complex character who draws you to her with a vulnerability and the kind of teen desires that so many can relate to. Dawson has created a superb novel and a fabulous addition to the multi-verse of Alices inWonderlands.
BOOK REVIEW: THE OFFING BY BENJAMIN MYERS The Offing is quite refreshing in the smallness of scope – it’s just the simple tale of a friendship between a young man and an older lady. The stakes are low, there is no tension. And that’s fine. Though the florid nature of Myers’ language can be maddening, the story of Robert and Dulcie is charm itself. ★★★. ROUGH JUSTICE REVIEW: A SOLID INTERNATIONAL CRIME DRAMA Based on the novels by Toni Coppers, and using a mixture of existing stories and new ideas, Rough Justice doesn’t deviate too far from the tried and tested crime formula but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes you need to play to the strengths BOOK REVIEW: THE FOUNDLING BY STACEY HALLS Stacey Halls’ The Foundling transports readers to Georgian London as it centres on two women from different backgrounds who are bound by the same child. Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter at the foundling hospital, Bess Bright returns with money to collect her child only to find that someone else has beaten her to it, using Bess’ name to fraudulently claim the little girl asGREGORY PORTER
Gregory Porter – All Rise Review. I have been immersing myself in Gregory Porter’s new album All Rise throughout the week. Contentedly and lavishly soaking in the feel-good vibes. Porter is smoother than smooth, cooler than cool. It’s incredibly indulgent and such a sound for sore ears in these incredibly difficult times. BOOK REVIEW: THE DRESSMAKER'S GIFT BY FIONA VALPY Book Review: The Dressmaker’s Gift by Fiona Valpy. Despite its synopsis promising a complex, intergenerational tale of family secrets, wartime betrayals and a dark past to unravel, it becomes very clear early on that the Dressmaker’s Gift by Fiona Valpy is actually more a story of two disparate parts. While the war-torn world of 1940s BOOK REVIEW: LONER BY GEORGINA YOUNG Loner, the debut novel from Georgina Young, is a fantastic evocation of the numerous way in which those first steps into adulthood can be the absolute worst, especially for young people who don’t fit neatly into the societal mould. It’s clear that Lona is a smart person. She thinks and thinks and thinks. That, in some ways, is her problem. BOOK REVIEW: US THREE BY RUTH JONES Us Three is a book that’s been split into three main parts, and the very nature of that structure means that there really is something in this novel for everyone to enjoy. The first part picks up with the girls as bright, young eighteen-year-olds, still confident in their unwavering friendship and giddy with the excitement of both their upcoming holiday adventure and the future upon their BOOK REVIEW: TOO MARVELLOUS FOR WORDS BY JULIE WELCH The background given on former Games mistress Coulo was by far the most illuminating and it’s a shame that it was a ‘potted’ version. Too Marvellous for Words is an entertaining ‘fly on the wall’ glimpse into a bygone era and a worthwhile read for anyone who’d like to know what boarding school life was like. ★★★★. BOOK REVIEW: ISABELLE IN THE AFTERNOON BY DOUGLAS KENNEDY Douglas Kennedy’s Isabelle in the Afternoon captured my attention with its premise: a love affair set in Paris in the 1970s. It kept my attention by having so much more story to tell. As intimate and passionate as it is poignant, the strength of this novel comes from its complete normality, foregoing wild plot twists and dramatic high tensions for the quiet yet powerful exploration of one BOOK REVIEW: WONDERLAND BY JUNO DAWSON Wonderland is an extravagant, fun and witty adventure, and an absorbing read from start to finish. Alice is a charming and complex character who draws you to her with a vulnerability and the kind of teen desires that so many can relate to. Dawson has created a superb novel and a fabulous addition to the multi-verse of Alices inWonderlands.
BOOK REVIEW: THE OFFING BY BENJAMIN MYERS The Offing is quite refreshing in the smallness of scope – it’s just the simple tale of a friendship between a young man and an older lady. The stakes are low, there is no tension. And that’s fine. Though the florid nature of Myers’ language can be maddening, the story of Robert and Dulcie is charm itself. ★★★. ROUGH JUSTICE REVIEW: A SOLID INTERNATIONAL CRIME DRAMA Based on the novels by Toni Coppers, and using a mixture of existing stories and new ideas, Rough Justice doesn’t deviate too far from the tried and tested crime formula but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes you need to play to the strengths BOOK REVIEW: REALM BREAKER BY VICTORIA AVEYARD By self-admission, Victoria Aveyard was extremely intimidated by the prospect of writing her latest book, Realm Breaker. Her debut YA fantasy novel, Red Queen, and its subsequent three sequels were hugely popular – putting the American author on the fantasy map in her early-twenties, just after she’d graduated from university. CARMEN AND LOLA ARCHIVES Carmen (Rosy RodrÃguez) is about to get engaged to her boyfriend Rafa (Juan José Jiménez). She meets Rafa’s cousin Lola (Zaira Romero), a closeted lesbian and b BOOK REVIEW: BLACK WATER SISTER BY ZEN CHO Recent Harvard graduate Jess has, to put it mildly, a lot on her plate. Although she’s lived in America for the majority of her life, health and financial troubles force her parents to return to their native Malaysia, and Jess goes with them. BOOK REVIEW: SEPARATION ANXIETY BY LAURA ZIGMAN In Separation Anxiety, Laura Zigman shows us the awkward, funny, painful journey of a woman learning to live without hers – at least some of the time. Like its messy, flawed heroine, Separation Anxiety is so easy to relate to, and to love. ★★★★★. Separation Anxiety is published by Doubleday on 16 April 2020. 5 BOOKS THAT DESERVE AN ADAPTATION Carry on reading to discover the top 5 books that we think deserve an adaptation. 5. Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde (Recommended by Sophie) Definitely not to be confused with E. L. James’ book with a very similar name, Jasper Fforde’s Shades of Grey (subtitled ‘ The Road to High Saffron’) is a fantasy of a very different kind.SONITA REVIEW
Sonita Review. Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music. Directed by: Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami. Starring: Sonita Alizadeh & Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami. Sonita Alizadeh could be any star struck teenager in the west when we first meet her. She’s busy pasting her face over a picture of Rihanna and dreaming of performing on stage in front ofthousands.
TOP 5 FEMALE ROBOTS IN SCI-FI MOVIES Maria – Metropolis (1927) The original and the ultimate celluloid female robot has to be Maria, the maschinenmensch (human machine) from Fritz Lang’s 1927 masterpiece, Metropolis. In an attempt to resurrect the woman he fell in love with, mad scientist and inventor Rotwang creates the robot Maria in her image- epitomising the eleganceof
JAMIE O'CONNELL ARCHIVES The extract is from the opening scene from the first chapter of Diving for Pearls. It follows Assim, a gay Emirati man studying medicine inIreland.
BOOK REVIEW: BLUE DOG BY LOUIS DE BERNIÈRES Books come in all shapes and sizes, and Louis de Bernières new novel Blue Dog, a prequel to 2001’s bestselling Red Dog, is a pleasingly presented book that’s the perfect size for those who enjoy ‘bite-sized’ novels.However, don’t be fooled by the smallness of this book because it’s a real gem. BOOK REVIEW: ON MIDNIGHT BEACH BY MARIE-LOUISE FITZPATRICK Inspired by the old Irish legend known as the Táin Bó Cúailnge, Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick’s On Midnight Beach is a coming-of-age story of love, loyalty, community, deep-rooted feuds and tragedy of Shakespearean proportions. It’s set during a long, hot summer in 1976 and tells an intoxicating tale of hostility between two opposing towns in Ireland whose long-standing grudge bubbles over BOOK REVIEW: SEPARATION ANXIETY BY LAURA ZIGMAN In Separation Anxiety, Laura Zigman shows us the awkward, funny, painful journey of a woman learning to live without hers – at least some of the time. Like its messy, flawed heroine, Separation Anxiety is so easy to relate to, and to love. ★★★★★. Separation Anxiety is published by Doubleday on 16 April 2020. BOOK REVIEW: THE FOUNDLING BY STACEY HALLS Stacey Halls’ The Foundling transports readers to Georgian London as it centres on two women from different backgrounds who are bound by the same child. Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter at the foundling hospital, Bess Bright returns with money to collect her child only to find that someone else has beaten her to it, using Bess’ name to fraudulently claim the little girl as BOOK REVIEW: THE DRESSMAKER'S GIFT BY FIONA VALPY Book Review: The Dressmaker’s Gift by Fiona Valpy. Despite its synopsis promising a complex, intergenerational tale of family secrets, wartime betrayals and a dark past to unravel, it becomes very clear early on that the Dressmaker’s Gift by Fiona Valpy is actually more a story of two disparate parts. While the war-torn world of 1940s BOOK REVIEW: US THREE BY RUTH JONES Us Three is a book that’s been split into three main parts, and the very nature of that structure means that there really is something in this novel for everyone to enjoy. The first part picks up with the girls as bright, young eighteen-year-olds, still confident in their unwavering friendship and giddy with the excitement of both their upcoming holiday adventure and the future upon their ROUGH JUSTICE REVIEW: A SOLID INTERNATIONAL CRIME DRAMAROUGH JUSTICE ARTICLEROUGH JUSTICE BOOK Based on the novels by Toni Coppers, and using a mixture of existing stories and new ideas, Rough Justice doesn’t deviate too far from the tried and tested crime formula but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes you need to play to the strengths BOOK REVIEW: TOO MARVELLOUS FOR WORDS BY JULIE WELCH The background given on former Games mistress Coulo was by far the most illuminating and it’s a shame that it was a ‘potted’ version. Too Marvellous for Words is an entertaining ‘fly on the wall’ glimpse into a bygone era and a worthwhile read for anyone who’d like to know what boarding school life was like. ★★★★. MIDNIGHT SUN REVIEW: A SERIES THAT LEAVES YOU WANTING MOREMIDNIGHT SUN ON HULUMIDNIGHT SUN SEASON 2MIDNIGHT SUN SWEDISH TVWATCH MIDNIGHT SUN FREE ONLINEWATCH MIDNIGHT SUN ONLINE The first is that the show isn’t really about crime at all. Or at least, the crime isn’t the central focus, but the prism through which the broader themes are explored. It’s hard to dispute the status of the show as a ‘crime drama’, given there is rather a lot of crime, but there is far more to the show than that. BOOK REVIEW: HAVEN'T THEY GROWN BY SOPHIE HANNAH Book Review: Haven’t They Grown by Sophie Hannah. Whilst driving her son to an Under-14s away football match, Beth Leeson can’t resist the urge to sneak past her former best friend’s house and try to catch a glimpse of her. She hasn’t seen Flora Braid for twelve years but as she parks outside the sprawling modern mansion and watches BOOK REVIEW: ISABELLE IN THE AFTERNOON BY DOUGLAS KENNEDY Douglas Kennedy’s Isabelle in the Afternoon captured my attention with its premise: a love affair set in Paris in the 1970s. It kept my attention by having so much more story to tell. As intimate and passionate as it is poignant, the strength of this novel comes from its complete normality, foregoing wild plot twists and dramatic high tensions for the quiet yet powerful exploration of one THE BORDER SEASON 1 REVIEW: A MUST-WATCH CRIME THRILLER The Border Season 1 Review: A Must-Watch Crime Thriller. When the UK started to take notice of the fantastic drama being produced across Europe, it was BBC Four that was the place to find it – with Wallander and The Killing being followed by a wave of worthy successors. Since January this year, however, Channel 4 is the placeto go for
BOOK REVIEW: SEPARATION ANXIETY BY LAURA ZIGMAN In Separation Anxiety, Laura Zigman shows us the awkward, funny, painful journey of a woman learning to live without hers – at least some of the time. Like its messy, flawed heroine, Separation Anxiety is so easy to relate to, and to love. ★★★★★. Separation Anxiety is published by Doubleday on 16 April 2020. BOOK REVIEW: THE FOUNDLING BY STACEY HALLS Stacey Halls’ The Foundling transports readers to Georgian London as it centres on two women from different backgrounds who are bound by the same child. Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter at the foundling hospital, Bess Bright returns with money to collect her child only to find that someone else has beaten her to it, using Bess’ name to fraudulently claim the little girl as BOOK REVIEW: THE DRESSMAKER'S GIFT BY FIONA VALPY Book Review: The Dressmaker’s Gift by Fiona Valpy. Despite its synopsis promising a complex, intergenerational tale of family secrets, wartime betrayals and a dark past to unravel, it becomes very clear early on that the Dressmaker’s Gift by Fiona Valpy is actually more a story of two disparate parts. While the war-torn world of 1940s BOOK REVIEW: US THREE BY RUTH JONES Us Three is a book that’s been split into three main parts, and the very nature of that structure means that there really is something in this novel for everyone to enjoy. The first part picks up with the girls as bright, young eighteen-year-olds, still confident in their unwavering friendship and giddy with the excitement of both their upcoming holiday adventure and the future upon their ROUGH JUSTICE REVIEW: A SOLID INTERNATIONAL CRIME DRAMAROUGH JUSTICE ARTICLEROUGH JUSTICE BOOK Based on the novels by Toni Coppers, and using a mixture of existing stories and new ideas, Rough Justice doesn’t deviate too far from the tried and tested crime formula but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes you need to play to the strengths BOOK REVIEW: TOO MARVELLOUS FOR WORDS BY JULIE WELCH The background given on former Games mistress Coulo was by far the most illuminating and it’s a shame that it was a ‘potted’ version. Too Marvellous for Words is an entertaining ‘fly on the wall’ glimpse into a bygone era and a worthwhile read for anyone who’d like to know what boarding school life was like. ★★★★. MIDNIGHT SUN REVIEW: A SERIES THAT LEAVES YOU WANTING MOREMIDNIGHT SUN ON HULUMIDNIGHT SUN SEASON 2MIDNIGHT SUN SWEDISH TVWATCH MIDNIGHT SUN FREE ONLINEWATCH MIDNIGHT SUN ONLINE The first is that the show isn’t really about crime at all. Or at least, the crime isn’t the central focus, but the prism through which the broader themes are explored. It’s hard to dispute the status of the show as a ‘crime drama’, given there is rather a lot of crime, but there is far more to the show than that. BOOK REVIEW: HAVEN'T THEY GROWN BY SOPHIE HANNAH Book Review: Haven’t They Grown by Sophie Hannah. Whilst driving her son to an Under-14s away football match, Beth Leeson can’t resist the urge to sneak past her former best friend’s house and try to catch a glimpse of her. She hasn’t seen Flora Braid for twelve years but as she parks outside the sprawling modern mansion and watches BOOK REVIEW: ISABELLE IN THE AFTERNOON BY DOUGLAS KENNEDY Douglas Kennedy’s Isabelle in the Afternoon captured my attention with its premise: a love affair set in Paris in the 1970s. It kept my attention by having so much more story to tell. As intimate and passionate as it is poignant, the strength of this novel comes from its complete normality, foregoing wild plot twists and dramatic high tensions for the quiet yet powerful exploration of one THE BORDER SEASON 1 REVIEW: A MUST-WATCH CRIME THRILLER The Border Season 1 Review: A Must-Watch Crime Thriller. When the UK started to take notice of the fantastic drama being produced across Europe, it was BBC Four that was the place to find it – with Wallander and The Killing being followed by a wave of worthy successors. Since January this year, however, Channel 4 is the placeto go for
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True fans of gothic literature will be the first to inform you that while Bram Stoker’s Dracula is the most famous, the most irreparably quintessential vampire story, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s novella Carmilla got there first – by 26 years no less.Fortunately, Carmilla has been noted as the inspiration for various vampire media, as well as getting its own adaptations, the latest being BOOK REVIEW: REALM BREAKER BY VICTORIA AVEYARD By self-admission, Victoria Aveyard was extremely intimidated by the prospect of writing her latest book, Realm Breaker. Her debut YA fantasy novel, Red Queen, and its subsequent three sequels were hugely popular – putting the American author on the fantasy map in her early-twenties, just after she’d graduated from university. BOOK REVIEW: ON MIDNIGHT BEACH BY MARIE-LOUISE FITZPATRICK Inspired by the old Irish legend known as the Táin Bó Cúailnge, Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick’s On Midnight Beach is a coming-of-age story of love, loyalty, community, deep-rooted feuds and tragedy of Shakespearean proportions. It’s set during a long, hot summer in 1976 and tells an intoxicating tale of hostility between two opposing towns in Ireland whose long-standing grudge bubbles over BOOK REVIEW: BLACK WATER SISTER BY ZEN CHO Recent Harvard graduate Jess has, to put it mildly, a lot on her plate. Although she’s lived in America for the majority of her life, health and financial troubles force her parents to return to their native Malaysia, and Jess goes with them. BOOK REVIEW: ARROWOOD BY LAURA MCHUGH Laura McHugh’s second novel, Arrowood, takes readers to an historic house in southern Iowa, where family lies and devastating secrets linger in the air like mayflies on a humid summer day.It’s a tale of tragedy and misshapen memories, set against the backdrop of grand houses, unsolved crimes and the Mississippi river. CARMEN AND LOLA REVIEW Carmen (Rosy RodrÃguez) is about to get engaged to her boyfriend Rafa (Juan José Jiménez). She meets Rafa’s cousin Lola (Zaira Romero), a closeted lesbian and budding ornithologist, at the market where they both work with their families, and Lola feels an instant spark. JAMIE O'CONNELL ARCHIVES The extract is from the opening scene from the first chapter of Diving for Pearls. It follows Assim, a gay Emirati man studying medicine inIreland.
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