Bound, Vanda Symon

Posted 2:12am Monday 12th September 2011

Bound is the fourth book in Vanda Symon’s crime novel series starring Detective Sam Shephard, and it opens with a hell of a bang (kind of literally; there’s a reason why the murder victim’s face is described as “just dripping meat, bone and brain”). In fact, the opening made me think “Wow, she’s Read more...

Mrs Carey’s Concert

Posted 4:44am Thursday 4th August 2011

Directed by: Bob Connelly and Sophie Raymond, (3.5/5). Mrs Carey’s Concert is one of those quintessential performing-arts films in which, through the power of music/dance/theatre/etc., a bad boy/girl finds out what makes him/her special and rises to the occasion and it’s all, like, Read more...

Fosterling

Posted 4:03am Tuesday 26th April 2011

Author: Emma Neale. Publisher: Vintage (3/5) Dave—there’s no such thing as yetis.” But what if there were? And how would we react? These are the questions behind Emma Neale’s new novel Fosterling. Bu, the main character, is found in a remote forest after falling and Read more...