Anne Neville: Richard Iii's Tragic Queen
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Shakespeare's enduring image of Richard III's queen is one of bitterness and sorrow. Anne curses the...
Are You My Mother?
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Alison Bechdel's Fun Home was a literary phenomenon: 'an extraordinarily intimate account of family...
The Windows of Graceland
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The Windows of Graceland gathers the cream of the crop from Martina Evans's five previous...
Warriors of the Storm
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The new novel in Bernard Cornwell's number one bestselling series on the making of England and the...
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Awix (3310 KP) rated Proxima (2019) in Movies
Aug 3, 2020
Not really a science fiction film in any genuine sense of the word, but one which combines a very realistic portrayal of life as an astronaut in training with an examination of what it means to go off into space leaving your children behind. Doesn't quite ring correctly on a number of levels: we are invited to dislike the American mission commander, who is a chauvinist alpha-male in some ways, but on the other hand the film is about the extra difficulties of being a mum on the way to orbit. Mmm, I don't know - is it really that different from being a father and going off into space? A definite sense of maternity being idealised - a key sequence sees Green's character breaking mission protocols in a pretty major way just to keep a promise to her daughter. (Then again I'm neither a woman or a parent.) A bit of a shame as the film is engaging and well-played, but it's much more about Mas than Mars.
House of Names
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They cut her hair before they dragged her to the place of sacrifice. Her mouth was gagged to stop...
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Small Talk (2016)
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Anu is a tomboy. Although she was married off at a young age – as was customary in Taiwan in the...
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The Dependents
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A wise and lyrical debut novel about a new widower confronting the truth about his long marriage. ...
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LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2020* From the Booker-winning Irish author, a brilliant and...
