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Predators Review

It was a show that gripped America. Actors posing as children would lure predatory men…

Book Review: The House Saphir by Marissa Meyer

There’s nothing I love more than a good retelling. Whether it reimagines a historical event,…

Read an extract from As Many Souls As Stars by Natasha Siegel

1592. Cybil Harding, daughter of a secret alchemist, was born under cursed stars. Destined to…

Julie Caplin on her love of travel and how it inspires her books

As a child I was quiet and timid, perhaps cowed by a miserable parental divorce,…

Book Review: Darker Days by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

Every year, the five families who live on Bird Street enjoy a charmed existence, becoming…

London Film Festival 2025: The best of the rest of the fest

Here’s our roundup of the best movies from this year’s London Film Festival that we didn’t have time to cover in full.

Têtes Brûlées – BFI London Film Festival Review

12 year-old Eya’s (Safa Gharboui) favourite person in the whole world is her older brother…

Souleymane’s Story Review

Souleymane (Abou Sangaré) has migrated from Guinea to Paris, desperate to make enough money to…

Read an extract from Daughter of No Worlds by Carissa Broadbent

Ripped from a forgotten homeland as a child, Tisaanah learned how to survive with nothing…

High Wire – BFI London Film Festival Review

Go-Wing (Isabella Wei) works in her dad’s (Dominic Lam Kah-Wah) Chinese takeaway in the middle…

Book Review: Hot Wax by M. L. Rio

It’s summer 1989 and ten-year-old Suzanne is drawn like a magnet to her father’s forbidden…

Love Me Tender – BFI London Film Festival Review

Lawyer-turned-writer Clémence (Vicky Krieps) has been amicably separated from her husband Laurent (Antoine Reinartz) for…