The Burning Girl by Claire Messud (Fleet, £16.99) Julia and Cassie have been best friends since nursery school but, in the way of teenagers, the friendship has floundered. Troubled Cassie, who has a fraught relationship with her mother, has started hanging out with the cool, mean kids while Julie, daughter […]
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The Choice by Edith Eger (Rider, £14.99) The exhausted women are herself, her sister and her mother and the yard is outside Auschwitz. Her mother will soon be dead and the siblings will be “an anatomy lesson. Elbows, knees, ankles, cheeks, knuckles, ribs jut out like questions. What are we […]
This Is Going To Hurt: Secret Diaries Of A Junior Doctor by Adam Kay(Picador, £16.99) Soon after, he discovered the diaries he had kept throughout his tenure and “was reminded of the brutal hours and the colossal impact being a junior doctor had on my life”. Those diaries have now […]
For a number of months now there have been many leaks and rumours that Luke is in possession of his father Darth Vader’s red kyber crystal. This is a shard from the Sith Lord’s lightsaber, something that Kylo Ren probably really wants as a Dark Side artefact, like the helmet […]
Since the record-breaking first trailer for the IT movie aired earlier this year, movie fans have been pointing out how the new horror has that Stranger Things feel to it. After all, it follows a group of kids – one of whom stars in the hit Netflix show – in […]
August was a hectic month for ARK Survival Evolved on PS4 and Xbox One. Not only did fans see the game leave early access but they also saw the release of the new Ragnarok mod. Much like the base game, Ragnarok is set to see a range of new updates […]
The first book in the Cormoran Strike series, the Cuckoo’s Calling, was reviewed by fellow writers including Val McDermid and James Patterson, before Rowling had been revealed as the true author. Rowling, 52, wrote to thank them in fake handwriting but later apologised for fooling them when her cover was […]
LCD Soundsystem American Dream (DFA/Columbia) Sculpting his huge soundscapes, as ever, from the slinkiest, most hypnotic, dance rhythms Murphy takes the listener on a series of epic journeys here, from the opening Oh Baby with its heady, dream-like, atmosphere. The Bowie legacy kicks in with a vengeance on Other Voices […]