Six hours later she is strangled with a length of cord at her home in west London. Knuckle-headed police think she was the victim of a burglary as jewellery and her laptop had been taken. This being a Anthony Horowitz mystery, you know more lurks behind Mrs Cowper’s untimely death. […]
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The novel charts Stan Laurel’s life in 203 short chapters from his perspective as a retiree in Santa Monica, California. After the death of Oliver “Babe” Hardy in 1957, Laurel retired from making pictures until his death in 1965. It is the strength of their friendship that forms the basis […]
VERNON GOD LITTLE by DBC Pierre Faber, £8.99 This is about a shooting in a school seen through the eyes of a young boy. It took me a while to get into it because it’s written in Texan slang but it’s a real romp: a funny, irreverent, dark comment on […]
David Harrower’s radical, ritualistic three-hander, premiered in 1995, explores the nature of words and labour, education and sexuality in a manner that is both sophisticated and primitive. Ploughman Pony William (Christian Cooke) returns from the fields to interrupt his wife (Judith Roddy) – known only as Young Woman – as […]
The bizarre interpolation comes in Swift’s Look What You Made Me Do – which came out last night. Fred Fairbrass, Richard Fairbrass and Rob Manzoli are credited alongside Swift and Jack Antonoff on the track, destined to become a global No1. Taking to Twitter, the group praised the unlikely move. […]
Destiny 2 developer Bungie is about to make the beta available to pre-load on PC. The Destiny 2 PC beta has an August 28 start date for pre-order customers. The open beta starts a day later on August 29. The shortened PC beta period ends just a few days later on August 31, […]
LightInTheBox offers the WLtoys A929 1:8-Scale 4-Wheel Drive Remote-Controlled Desert Truck in several colors (Green pictured) for $219.40. With free shipping, that’s the lowest price we could find by $195. It features a brushless motor, 7.4-volt 4,000mAh battery, hydraulic shock absorbers, and up to a 34-mph top speed. Note: This […]
Earlier this month the long-rumoured anthology tale was finally said to be in proper development, with Stephen Daldry in early talks to direct. Now, Omega Underground claims its working title is Joshua Tree. This, it seems, could point towards the Joshua Tree National Park in Southern California – or somewhere […]