The Late Films of Claude Chabrol: Genre, Visual Expressionism and Narrational Ambiguity
Book
A member of the French New Wave group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the...
Magnetic Recording Handbook
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When I started in magnetic recording nearly fifty years ago, it was easy to perceive the common...
The Poster: Art, Advertising, Design, and Collecting, 1860s-1900s
Book
The Poster: Art, Advertising, Design, and Collecting, 1860s-1900s is a cultural history that...
Banged Up: Doing Time in Britain's Toughest Jails
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The wartime double agent with a transmitter in his cell to contact suffragettes; the doctor hanged...
The Triumph of Caesar
Book
The new novel from the internatinal bestselling author of Roma, is set against the background of...
Out of the Ice
Book
'A taut and tightly wound page-turner' Marie Claire When environmental scientist Laura Alvarado is...
ClareR (5726 KP) rated The Bass Rock in Books
May 29, 2020 (Updated May 29, 2020)
The novel looks at a lot of themes over the years: the role of women, both their expected role and what they actually want to do; relationships between men and women, and those relationships between women as well; cruelty and abuse; and mental health is an important theme, and indeed is central to a great many of the characters.
It's just the kind of book that I enjoy reading, both in style and thematic content. Sometimes you just need a book that ticks along, one that's in no rush to get where it's going. If that makes you think that this is a boring book, it really isn't. There's a lot going on in these timelines, the characters have a lot of things to deal with in their relationships and lives in general, but I never felt rushed. It's a book that I wanted to last. In fact, I really do think that this has been an ideal book to read during this coronavirus lockdown. I think that it will also be a book that I gift to other people.
Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for sending me my ebook copy.
The Hunting Party
Book
"Everyone's invited...everyone's a suspect... For fans of Ruth Ware and Tana French, a shivery,...
murder mystery suspense thriller
Unforgotten - Series 1
TV Show
Unforgotten is a British crime drama television series, which initially aired on ITV on 8 October...
Crime Drama