The Secret Crown – Chris Kuzneski
The mysterious death of Mad King Ludwig, his life of fantasy and excess and the discovery of a former Nazi bunker are combined to produce a fast paced thriller. History and surmise...
Book Review – Sallie Eden
Taking as its premise “anyone can learn to knit”, after a brief history of knitting, a description of the materials you need and an illustrated guide to the main stitches, there...
Book Review – Sallie Eden
The Soul Collectors by Chris Mooney A missing child claims he is still alive ten years later and has taken his family hostage. Where has he been and why has he come...
The Night Bookmobile by Audrey Niffenegger
A very different book by the author of “The Time Traveller’s wife”, based on a short story, serialised in the Guardian. At the start of the story, Alexandra encounters a Winnebago late...
Living Opera by Joshua Jampol – OUP hardback
This book comprises Jampol’s interviews with 20 key figures from the opera world – conductors, singers, music directors etc. He covers everything from pre-performance superstitions to favourite composers and the relevance of...
Toy Story 3
Starring voices of: Tom Hanks, Joan Cusack, Tim Allen – Director Lee Unkrich. Sequels are rarely anything like the originals and this story isn’t any different… it’s better!!! In this superb family...
Anything For Her
Starring: Vincent Lindon, Diane Kruger & Lancelot Roch, directed by Fred Cavayé. In this superb French drama, Lisa (Diane Kruger) and Julien (Vincent Lindon) are a happily married couple, still passionately in...
The Disappearance Of Alice Creed
Starring Gemma Arterton, Martin Compston & Eddie Marsan, directed by J Blakeson. In this breathtaking thriller, two masked men seize a young woman, Alice Creed (Arterton), daughter of a millionaire. Her coldly...
Wild Target
Starring Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt & Rupert Grint, directed by Jonathan Lynn Victor (Nighy) is an assassin who lives to please his formidable mother. His professional routine is interrupted when he is...
September 2012
On the Thursday before our wedding, I was shopping for shoes. This felt like a fairly high level of organisation by my standards, but the shop owner’s horror when I told her...