The King’s Speech
Starring Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter & Derek Jacobi, directed by Tom Hooper. From his TV roots, directing many magnificent shows like Prime Suspect and Cold Feet, Tom Hooper’s cinema movies have...
Made in Dagenham
The catalyst for the 1968 Ford Dagenham strike by 187 female sewing machinists, this film plots their fight to ultimately change the Equal Pay Act in Britain – and eventually worldwide. Working...
The Secret In Their Eyes
Starring Soledad Villamil, Ricardo Darín and Carla Quevedo. Directed by Juan José Campanella When a retired criminal prosecutor decides to try his hand at writing a novel, he finds himself inextricably drawn...
Edge Of Darkness
Starring Mel Gibson, directed by Martin Campbell Gibson plays a well-respected Boston cop whose life is changed irrevocably by the murder of his only daughter and sole family member. Investigating the crime,...
The Food Hospital by Dr Gio Miletto, Lucy Jones and Dr Shaw Somers
Subtitled “Simple, Delicious Recipes For A Healthy Life”, and linked to the current Channel 4 series of the same name, this book aims to explain how food can enhance health and offers...
Forever Rumpole: The Best of the Rumpole Stories by John Mortimer
Fourteen stories, out of almost eighty written between 1978 and 2004, represent “the best” of Rumpole’s career. As a bonus there are the six pages from the novel Mortimer was working on...
Simon’s Cat in Kitten Chaos by Simon Tofield
Since the initial film Cat Man Do, which grew out of testing new software and quickly achieved a cult following, a further 15 films have been added to Simon Tofield’s website www.simonscat.com....
When God Was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman
In a book which reads like an autobiography, we learn of Elly’s life from her birth in the late 1960s through her teenage years and beyond, from the suburbs to rural Cornwall...