Effie Talbot hasn’t been invited to the last hurrah at her beloved family home, Greenoaks. At least she doesn’t consider the passive-aggressive ‘anti-invitation’ she received from her dad’s shiny new girlfriend a…
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It’s officially spooky season! Time to bring out the candles, cosy knitwear and pumpkins for carving. If you’re a book lover, it also means filling your reading pile with suitably strange and…
Abandoned by her mother as a small child and adopted as a daughter of Death and Fortune, Vanja Schmidt knows that no gift is freely given and every debt must be repaid.…
Back – way back – when I was a teenager, our family dog Patch was quite a character. Part Fox Terrier, other parts unknown, we were sure he was descended from a…
With over 150 features in this year’s programme, inevitably some of the best films in the London Film Festival 2021 flew under the radar. Here are five worthy of greater attention: What…
‘A nail-biting cold-war thriller, set against the desperate Apollo mission that never really happened… or did it?’ – that’s how director James Cameron billed Chris Hadfield’s debut fiction novel, The Apollo Murders,…
It’s 1988, and Native American child Makwa (Phoenix Wilson) is bullied at home and bullied at school; his only friend in the world is Ted-O (Julian Gopal). One day, seemingly out of…