A Slip Under the Microscope
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'I will go in, out of this dust and heat, out of this dry glitter of vanity, out of these toilsome...
The Secrets of Wishtide
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Mrs Laetitia Rodd is the impoverished widow of an Archdeacon, living modestly in Hampstead with her...
The World Before Us
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'A tantalising mystery...beguiling and richly suggestive' Metro Jane was fifteen when her life...
How Much Land Does A Man Need?
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'Although he feared death, he could not stop. 'If I stopped now, after coming all this way - well,...
The Pedant in the Kitchen
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The Pedant's ambition is simple. He wants to cook tasty, nutritious food; he wants not to poison his...
Bradshaw's Handbook to London
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Conway's latest contribution to the Bradshaw's publishing phenomenon is this superb and wonderfully...
Historic Streets & Squares: The Secrets on Your Doorstep
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Britain's favourite house historian investigates the stories behind our most famous streets and...
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Awix (3310 KP) rated Enola Holmes (2020) in Movies
Sep 24, 2020
Doesn't really bear much resemblance to the original canon, nor to the realities of Victorian London or much else, really: there isn't a great deal of detecting going on, but there is a lot of earnest messaging about finding your own path and giving the patriarchy a good kicking. Has clearly had some money spent on it; Brown has a certain presence and Cavill, while arguably miscast, is less problematic than you might expect. For a film which appears to be aimed at a fairly young audience there are some moments of surprisingly nasty violence, but on the whole it's fairly inoffensive. I imagine members of the target audience will probably enjoy it a lot more than me; I think I'll be sticking with Young Sherlock Holmes when I'm in the mood for this sort of thing.
The Whispering Skull: Lockwood & Co. #2
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In the six months since Anthony, Lucy, and George survived a night in the most haunted house in...
supernatural mystery horror

