novels

With award and popular buzz already surrounding it, the sequel to the Handmaid's Tale hits shelves officially today. There was a launch party at a bookshop in the UK last night which seems to have gone well, based on Tweets from Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer, who were in attendance. The article...

There has never been much discussion around here even though it's a hot topic in many places. I haven't seen the TV show and have only the read the first book of the novel series (which is called A Song of Ice and Fire with A Game of Thrones as the first novel) so have only been peripherally...

The list of movies that William Goldman wrote is a jaw-dropper: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid All the President's Men Marathon Man (based on his own novel) The Princess Bride (ditto) Misery And that's just a sample of some of the best known ones. He was easily one of the most successful...

‘The b**** is alive’ – Casino Royale at 65! Sorry for the nasty language in the headline above, but it's a paraphrase of the closing line from the novel being discussed that the writer of the article thought would be clever. 65 years ago, the first James Bond novel, Casino Royale (filmed 3...