BIRDSONG by Sebastian Faulks Vintage, £8.99 My all-time favourite. He was a journalist so his language is unflowery yet wonderfully romantic. It’s a love story set in the First World War, a mesmerising period for me. My grandfather lost his parents in the war. His dad died digging tunnels, described […]
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Much mystery surrounds the next chapter of the Star Wars saga, but now it looks like the general plot outline has been revealed. Today marks Force Friday II, the day when toys and collectables related to Star Wars The Last Jedi go on sale. All the action figures aside, Topps […]
Today is the day Harry Potter fans have been waiting for. September 1, 2017 – The date the famous wizard himself sends his son Albus Severus Potter off to Hogwarts for the first time. The famous scene was the epilogue called 19 Years Later in the final Harry Potter book. […]
There have been reports over what could follow GTA 5 Online and Red Dead Redemption 2 as Rockstar’s next big gaming project. Hopes were sparked that GTA 6 could be in the works following an admissions on a recent, however this turned out to be a hoax. There has even […]
New witches and wizards will be taking the Hogwarst Express at 11am. Famous offspring Albus Potter, Rose Weasley and Scorpius Malfoy all start at the famous school in 2017. None of them wan to follow in the early stumbling footsteps of Ron and Neville. However hard they tried, their spells […]
Stratton (Cert 15; 94mins) This globetrotting spy yarn is desperately old hat and lacking in budget and energy. Dominic Cooper stars as British Special Boat Service commando John Stratton. Back in London after a botched Middle East mission he becomes the one man who can thwart a chemical attack on […]
THE UNQUIET DEAD by Ausma Zehanat Khan No Exit Press, £7.99 Detective Rachel Getty and her boss Esa Khattak normally handle minority-sensitive cases so Getty is surprised when Khattak takes on the case. Then it comes to light that Drayton may have been a war criminal linked to the Srebrenica […]
CODENAME VILLANELLE by Luke Jennings John Murray, £14.99 Konstantin, who works for a secretive global power-elite, recruits her to become the perfect assassin. A hellish year later, this young Russian woman is trained to kill without mercy for her paymasters. She is given a new life and a new name, […]