Category: Film

Black hands scrub white floor tiles and dust the framed photographs, portraits of a white upper-class Capetown family for whom Mavis has served many years. Her own son

“All of this happened, more or less.” Published in 1969 when the author was forty-six years old, Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death was the

Thor the only god to have been a member of the Avengers, perhaps it should be no surprise that he is the first of that august band to

A long drive through the night, at the wheel Cecilia Amato, in the back her son Martín, playing with his toys; on the side of the road, a

In only thirty years the world has changed, the recreation of dinosaurs on Isla Nublar an ambitious experiment which could not be controlled, the long-extinct animals now free

Ambition is shaped by circumstance; it is easier for one who grew up around boats and enjoyed the independence that wealth brings to set their sights on circumnavigating

The slum districts of Chicago, 1987, Angie Pittarelli trying to make ends meet and support both herself and nephew David by working as a stripper at Revealers, harassed

North Denver, 1978; school is hell for Finney Shaw, targeted by a gang of bullies for whom taunts and cruel behaviour are less satisfying than physical violence, nor

Her movie star mother Ava Aldrich having spent the few lucid moments of her dying days begging her daughter Marie not to allow her remains to be taken

Traumatised by the sudden death of her husband James who she was on the point of divorcing, Harper Marlowe has decided to escape to the safety of the