~Spoilers ahead! ~ 11.4 Arachnids in the UK - Chris Chibnall Story The Doctor finally lands back to her companion's hometown: Sheffield. We're introduced to Yaz's family in this episode - her dad the environmentalist and cook, her sister the teenager and her mum, the hotel manager. Graham's grief is explored more and Ryan's relationship [...]
...because I want to know what happens but I'm not sure whether I'm willing to read on. I felt really torn while reading Scythe. I have seen so many glowing reviews for it plus the premise is so tantalising: in the future Age of Immortality there becomes a need to control the population through an [...]
Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison | Piper Kerman ★★★ Educated, white, middle-class with a steady career and relationship, Piper Kerman is not your average female inmate. Her memoir Orange is the New Black outlines Kerman's prison sentence for her reckless involvement as a drug mule for her ex-girlfriend. It is [...]
The Martian| Andy Weir ★★★★ So that's the situation. I'm stranded on Mars. I have no way to communicate with Hermes or Earth. Everyone thinks I'm dead. I'm in a Hab designed to last thirty-one days. If the oxygenator breaks down, I'll suffocate. If the water reclaimer breaks down, I'll die of thirst. If the Hab breaches, [...]
Starfish | Akemi Dawn Bowman ★★★★ Kiko Himura is many things; a young artist, a teenager and half-Japanese. Brought up by her white mother who is emotionally abusive, Kiko dreams of escaping to the art school Prism. This plan is shattered however when she is not accepted. So when her childhood friend Jamie returns to [...]
The other day, I received an email from Delfont Mackintosh Theatres a.k.a the theatre group that owns the Victoria Palace Theatre. Hamilton tickets are going on sale again. Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now. I saw the performance in December, near the tail end of the previews [...]
I adore a good Agatha Christie novel and Murder on the Orient Express is arguably the best murder mystery that Christie has written. It has a lavish 1930s setting; a luxury train filled with exciting and varied characters including a doctor, a governess and a Russian princess. Topped with a murder scene where there are too many [...]
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