Young Lara Bauer is too curious by far, her mind yearning for stimulation, her soul yearning for companionship beyond the stern tutelage of her governess Miss Fontaine and
There are some things that can’t be changed. The emptiness of the prairie. The loneliness of a night alone. The judgement of a vengeful god. The death of
It was in 1962 that Shirley Jackson published the final novel she was to complete in her lifetime, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, three years after
Travelling to space is all about the numbers: velocity, altitude, mass, thrust, the thousands of variables which can lift a vast metal object from the surface of the
Now in its seventy-third year, the Edinburgh International Film Festival this year welcomes Richard Dreyfuss to the city for the world premiere of Astronaut, while elsewhere there is
Lost in space, a bubble drifting without hope or direction, the starliner Aniara is out of control, the three week voyage from the Earth to Mars disrupted when