Red Roofs and Other Stories: Tanizaki Jun'ichir?
Anthony H. Chambers and Paul McCarthy
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Tanizaki Jun'ichir? (1886-1965), the author of Naomi; A Cat, a Man, andTwo Women; and The Makioka...
Harold Larwood
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Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, this is the first ever biography of Harold...
From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies
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A revolutionary classic of feminist cinema criticism, Molly Haskell's From Reverence to Rape remains...
Hazel (2934 KP) rated Safe House in Books
Oct 12, 2019
Charlie is trying to re-build her life after having spent time in prison; she buys a run down cottage in a small Cornish village and although she tries to keep herself to herself whilst renovating, she starts to become involved in village life and developing friendships amongst the residents but she soon begins to feel uneasy and things start to happen.
With a plausible story line, complex, well developed and interesting characters, a great setting culminating in a thrilling conclusion, this is an enjoyable read.
My thanks go to Random House UK, Vintage Publishing via NetGalley for my copy in return for an honest review.
Puckoon
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Puckoon is Spike Milligan's classic slapstick novel, reissued for the first time since it was...
Gun, With Occasional Music
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The first novel by Jonathan Lethem (author of the award-winning Motherless Brooklyn) is a...
Two Souls United (Etherya's Earth #5.5)
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Two of the most beloved characters in the series find their happy ever after in this sweet, steamy...
Fantasy Romance
David McK (3425 KP) rated Dauntless (The Lost Fleet, #1) in Books
Jan 30, 2019
Written by a ex-navy man, it's easy to see the influnece of his career in the pages: this is 'real' science-fiction, not science-fantasy, with the space battles obeying the laws of physics as we know them. The plot outline is also somewhat remniscient of the new series of BattleStar Galactica, with a smaller rag-tag force being chased by a numerically superior foe. Ironically, this book was first released at around the same time as that series came on TV, with (in this edition) the author claiming that that WAS NOT an inspiration (in the interview at the end), as if he'd been thinking of BSG it woud've been the older series.
With the way the book opens I must also admit that, at first, I thought I'd missed something: the best corollary I can think of is as if the film Aliens (that's the one with the 'S') had started without the whole prologue of them finding Ripleys life pod: you'd be able to infer what had happened, but would be feeling a bit lost at first.
The Dawn of Christianity: People and Gods in a Time of Magic and Miracles
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Exploring the origins of Christianity, this book looks at why it was that people first in Judea and...