Skin
Pitting tough female police diver Flea Marley and hardboiled detective Jack Caffery against their most twisted foe yet, Skin is one of the most…
keep readingPitting tough female police diver Flea Marley and hardboiled detective Jack Caffery against their most twisted foe yet, Skin is one of the most…
keep reading“Freely delivered, energized and unsculpted. The tone falls somewhere between linear narrative and stream-of-consciousness rant. At its best moments it’s high comedy delivered through…
keep reading“Brace yourself for a slam-dunk of a movie . . . [Slam] makes Godard’s Breathless look like a cartoon. . . . Independent filmmaking…
keep readingWhat would you do if late one night your loved one shouted, “Don’t let the midget out of the wardrobe”? Based on the side-splitting…
keep reading“Who would have thought a stand-up comedian could write a British police procedural as good as those produced by crime queens Elizabeth George and…
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keep reading“Side Man is a memory play with a difference. For it is not simply the story of its first-person narrator, a young man called…
keep readingWinner of the inaugural 2005 Man Booker International Prize, Ismail Kadare’s The Siege is an absorbing, timeless, psychological study into human cunning, battlefield strategy,…
keep reading“The best historical fiction delivers emotional truth through the lives of imaginary but ordinary people, making it possible to feel the texture of events…
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