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2018 's list, in case you wanted to get a flavour for Emsy's taste in Hollywood hunks! 10. Lakeith Stanfield, Knives Out (new en...

Having visited and reviewed the Adventure Bar in Covent Garden , I postulated whether the chain's venues outside of central Londo...

A month shy of turning 28, Taylor Swift has been around the block and suffered a few knocks to her standing (not to mention her heart) fo...

Summer 1962. In a Dorset hotel, overlooking the seaside, two virgins, Edward and Florence, navigate their wedding night with shared...

Robert Langdon, the Harvard professor whose impressive cognitive abilities was put through their paces in Angels and Demons and then ...

Although Jane Shemilt writes in lucid, gripping prose, her first novel suffers from several flaws.

A couple get married, full of love and hope for their future together. Several years down the line, they barely speak a word to each othe...

  Released last year to bated breaths and eager eyes, The Casual Vacancy is J.K. Rowling’s first foray into the adult-book market....

Having just suffered his first love and heartbreak, Johnny Debonair is uprooted from his farmhouse in Kent to the big city, where his...

Adultery. It’s always made for some of the most delicious film, TV and book storylines. Indeed, between 1873 to 1877, Leo Tolstoy used it...

Arriving in time for the New Year comes a second series of Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat’s wildly inventive Sherlock , which takes the class...

Louise Kember, separated wife and mother of two, decides to spend a hot Sunday afternoon with her daughters, Amelia and Katie, at the p...

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Thomas Hardy’s famous novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles was not a universal hit when it was first published in 1891, and met more than its f...

I’ve been a bit behind on the whole “a book a day” thing, as well as reviewing them for the blog. But anyway, here’s four books I read this ...

Thank the lord for audiobooks. If it wasn’t for Martyn Reed’s voice reading me Alex Garland’s second book, The Tesseract, I would have died ...

I haven’t read the first Julie Burchill novel for teenagers, Sugar Rush , for which this is the sequel to, nor have I seen the TV programme...

The Wasp Factory follows life of 16-year-old Frank, a truly sadistic and disturbed kid who likes to torture animals and has to date, killed...

Three books today, two novellas and a longer book. The two novellas were: Kill Swap (James Lovegrove) Despite being only about 60 pages in ...

The Lovely Bones. I was so busy celebrating the end of the exams that I nearly forgot to read, which would have been quite a crap way to ...