The Wanderers: The West Country Trilogy
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Two teenagers, bound by love yet divided by fate, forge separate paths in pre-First World War Devon...
Beyond Wilderness: The Group of Seven, Canadian Identity, and Contemporary Art, New Edition
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-The great purpose of landscape art is to make us at home in our own country- was the nationalist...
Agamemnon
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A new verse translation of Agamemnon, the first play in Aeschylus's trilogy The Oresteia. Agamemnon,...
Made Flesh: Sacrament and Poetics in Post-reformation England
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During the Reformation, the mystery of the Eucharist was the subject of contentious debate and a...
The Cinema of Poetry
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Since the publication of his foundational work, Visionary Film, P. Adams Sitney has been considered...
Pride Parades: How a Parade Changed the World
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On June 28, 1970, two thousand gay and lesbian activists in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago...
Zoe Nock (13 KP) rated Codename Villanelle (Killing Eve #1) in Books
Jun 26, 2019
It was certainly intriguing to hear the inner workings of Eve’s & Villanelle’s minds and to discover more about their backstory. I particularly enjoyed learning how Villanelle was moulded into the cold-bloodedly efficient assassin that fans of the show have come to love and fear.
“Black, white and red. Darkness, snow and blood. Perhaps it takes as Russian to understand the world in those terms.”
The novel is well written and clips along nicely. There are some well-executed (pun intended) set pieces in exotic or glamourous locations, it easy to see why it was targeted for adaptation. I’m glad that they resisted the temptation to give it the big screen treatment, turning it into what would probably been a beautifully shot but ultimately forgettable ‘sexy spy’ film.
It was an inspired decision to inject humour into the TV show; Phoebe Waller-Bridge brought this book to life in a darkly, deliciously, delightful way. Because of that I was a little disappointed with the book itself. Eve’s kookiness and Villanelle’s bat-s**t craziness are absent and sorely missed by anyone who has seen the series. It is still a good read but Waller-Bridge has shown us what the characters are truly capable of.
Owl
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The owls are not what they seem. From ancient Babylon to Edward Lear's The Owl and the Pussycat and...
A Kind of Freedom: A Novel
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Evelyn is a Creole woman who comes of age in New Orleans at the height of World War II. Her family...
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Ojalá by Lost Horizons
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Currently celebrating 20 years piloting his revered record label Bella Union, Simon Raymonde has...
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