Ebony and Ivory

In the Depression-era, racially segregated American South black and white collide to produce a shade of grey that will colour lives in Maycomb, Alabama, forever...read more

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The mystery of the missing plot

It's year 6 at Hogwarts - a very eventful year, as it proves. In no particular order: Harry helps Dumbledore recruit Slughorn as the new Potions master. Dumbled...read more

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JK Rowling and the Deathly Conclusion

Alas for JK Rowling. Like Voldemort she failed to foresee that it could only end badly. The thing about writing an episodic story is that, unless you are Tolkie...read more

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Keeping Up With The Joneses

You dont need superpowers when you've got a bullwhip, a fedora and your name is Indiana Jones. Harrison Ford, luckily rugged at 65 and not wrinkled, is back as ...read more

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Space Jam

So you've just discovered that your best friend is an alien from the darkest side of the moon and the planet you call home is to be demolished to make way for a...read more

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A mad, mad world

First there was Terry Pratchett, now there's Jasper Fforde. The Eyre Affair jumpstarted Fforde's career in fictioneering and has created an entirely new literar...read more

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Shiver Me Timbers

You'd expect the star of POC: At World's End to be Jack Sparrow. He isnt. Nor is the Will Turner-Elizabeth Swann romance the main attraction. Beastie Boy Davy J...read more

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Foul is Fair

These weird sisters are no black and midnight hags...there are no fires that burn nor any cauldrons that bubble....Terry Pratchett spins Macbeth on it's literar...read more

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We're all hobbits...

The lord of the rings contains within itself every single fantasy book ever written after it....there is not a single writer of the genre whose work does not di...read more

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Angels and demons

Pratchett and Gaiman hold a mirror to life as we know it on earth and we are happy to laugh at what we see in it...their sense of good and evil is infused with ...read more

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Unmaskerade the Ankh-Morpork way

On the Discworld the impossible is an everyday reality, a persistence of the unnatural in the face of sheer common sense..and within the Ankh-Morpork Opera Hous...read more

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A tale told by an idiot

Here's a guy who's read his tolkien, read his pratchett, read his epics, read the arthurian legends, watched star wars and now written a book peopled with the v...read more

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