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Brad Kessler's North is a novel about being rooted in a sense of place — and uprooted. It opens with a May blizzard forecast for...

Lennon and McCartney go head-to-head yet again. Ram was McCartney’s second solo album, released in 1971, and is a prime example of how popular music, on its release, is adjudged by so many factors other than music. Macca was in disfavour in 1971, regarded, wrongly, as the man who broke up The Beatles and also as the politico-spiritual lightweight of the quartet (Ringo has always been given a pass on these matters!). 50 years later, disconnected from all such blather, Ram is a jolly thing, s...

(The article continues below - Commercial information) The upcoming film, penned by the director himself, has been described as “a bold and unnerving character-driven horror film, in the vein of Hereditary, The Babadook”. In detail, we will follow Laura ( Andi Matichak), a mother who, after escaping from a cult as a child, must face her past when its sinister members break into her home and attempt to steal her eight-year-old son, David ( Luke David Blumm). Now the two are on the ru...

From the ashes Published in the Sunday Times (24/01/2021) Although last year was annus horribilis, a few bright sparks came out of it. One was that people had time to write books. Good books. So there is plenty on offer this year to keep readers happy. Here are a few highlights, from all-time favourite novelists to debut writers and a few in between ... 1. Already touted as the debut of the year is The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr. The Guardian has said its magnificence is reminiscent of To...

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