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The private investigator is one of the most enduring characters within crime fiction. From Dashiell...

Caleb's Crossing
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The new novel from Pulitzer Prize-winner Geraldine Brooks, author of the Richard and Judy bestseller...

Thinking Drinkers: The Enlightened Imbiber's Guide to Alcohol
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The Thinking Drinkers are Ben McFarland and Tom Sandham, two alcohol experts who have embarked on a...
Powers of the Press: Newspapers, Power and the Public in Nineteenth-Century England
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The power of the popular press presents all modern societies with difficulties. It is, however, a...

Last Features: East German Cinema's Lost Generation
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Last Features is the story of forgotten films made during the time of German unification. With...

Lalibela: Wonder of Ethiopia: The Monolithic Churches and Their Treasures
Claude Lepage and Jacques Mercier
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The Unesco World Heritage site of Lalibela in Ethiopia is one of the most extraordinary places in...

Teenage Safari: A South African Conscript in the Border War in Angola and Namibia
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A wide-eyed South African conscript relates his small share of the war in Angola and Namibia in the...

Chilli Banana: Authentic Thai Cooking from May's Kitchen
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From an inquisitive child trying out her first taste of cooking in the family home, to successful...

Awix (3310 KP) rated Tolkien (2019) in Movies
May 7, 2019 (Updated May 7, 2019)
So instead the script rustles up some sub-Dead Poets stuff about fine-young-chaps-together, and a somewhat trite romance, all the while suggesting that JRR couldn't look out of the window or turn on a light without being bombarded by visions of dragons and black riders and the rest of it. No wonder he wrote all those books; it must have been vital therapy for him. A few scenes do hint at the authentic, but also essentially un-cinematic Tolkien, the man who invented languages as a hobby and loved trees, and they do lift the film, but they also make you realise how bland most of this movie is. Nichola Hoult is good as Professor T and the film is well-mounted, but it still feels like a cash-in which is pushing its luck.

The World at My Feet: The Extraordinary Story of the Record-Breaking Fastest Run Around the Earth
Peter FitzSimons and Tom Denniss
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In 2013, Australian Tom Denniss became the fastest person to circumnavigate the world on foot. His...