FANTASTIC FICTION – Escapes to other places and other times

Takedown

Stephen Leather (http://www.stephenleather.com/) has been entertaining us for nearly 20 years with his novels of crime, imprisonment, military service, and terrorism. He’s certainly tapped into the zeitgeist because our daily news is saturated with crime, war, terrorism, death and destruction. Every night brings further gory detail about the bloodbath in The Middle East. The appetite for […]

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The Chemist

Stephenie Meyer (http://stepheniemeyer.com/) is an American young adult fiction writer and film producer, best known for her vampire romance series Twilight. These novels have gained worldwide recognition, selling over 100 million copies, with translations into 37 different languages. This year sees the author venture into the adult action thriller with The Chemist. The summary is as follows. An

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Conclave

Robert Harris (http://www.robert-harris.com/) is the author of ten bestselling novels: the Cicero Trilogy – Imperium, Lustrum and Dictator,  then Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, The Ghost, The Fear Index, and An Officer and a Spy, (which won four prizes including the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction). Several of his books have been filmed, most recently The

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Demelza

Tonight (Sunday 4th September 2016) sees the screening of the second series of the newly made Poldark historical drama on BBC TV. Many of us will remember the 29 episode TV adaptation with Robin Ellis and Angharad Rees which ran from 1975-1977. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075560/?ref_=nv_sr_2) Forty years on, and it’s Aidan Turner and Eleanor Tomlinson who are

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The Known World

Racial tensions in America have not gone away 50 years after the Civil Rights Movement (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_(1954%E2%80%9368)), and there is much talk in the media and among pundits about the enduring legacy of slavery. The 2013 film 12 Years a Slave (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2024544/?ref_=nv_sr_2) was an adaptation of the 1853 slave narrative memoir by Solomon Northup, a New York State-born free African-American man who

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