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The first point to make is, I am a wimp. I cannot watch horror films, I cannot watch medical, or scary television programs, and I am a little (okay a lot) afraid of the dark. However, I have never been afraid to read a book. It was not the same when it came to this [Read more...]

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I won’t lie, I’m a massive Disney fan. Who isn’t? I hold my Disney standards rather high, actually. So I was waiting for Wreck-it Ralph to be released in the UK for quite some time. It combines loveable characters, Disney’s regular moral lessons, and a love of gaming, so it’s safe to say that my [Read more...]

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Form the demo I played I can say will absolute assurance that I am hooked.

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After the 2009 J.J Abrams “reboot” blockbuster, Star Trek was given to us with excellent reception. Pleasing both newcomers and diehard “trekkies” alike, this new series of films has posed a varying tale than that of the treasured escapades frontlined by the (in)famous William Shatner. From the previous installment we have the starring cast of Chris Pine [Read more...]

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Last Christmas my brother bought me a hardback copy of ‘Snuff’ by Terry Pratchett. Unfortunately, owing to an increasingly busy schedule I rarely get a chance to indulge in superfluous reading these days, which is why I am a long term subscriber to audible.co.uk. That way I get to listen to books while I work. [Read more...]

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Gone with the Wind is a novel that made a university student grow up. Time to choose the morals that your parents attempt to instil you with – which ones stay, which ones go. Margaret Mitchell makes you wait and then wait some more, and then leaves you waiting in the most satisfying way. No [Read more...]

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One of the audiobooks I came across on the run up to Christmas was ‘The Young Atheist’s Handbook’ by Alom Shaha.1 Working a four hour evening shift means that I’m always looking for books that I can pretty much have finished by the time I clock-off. More often than not I had to spread the [Read more...]

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‘The most powerful of all her novels, a near- faultless masterpiece of pathos, observation and feeling.’ Sunday Telegraph.’ This haunting novel by Hilary Mantel offers a beautiful unforgettable portrait of a young female driving herself to destruction. Carmel McBain, a fragile and delicate character traces her life growing up in Lancashire to attending collage in [Read more...]

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‘London, the week before Christmas, 2007. Seven Wintry days to track the lives of seven characters;’ This book written by Sebastian Faulks follows the interchanging lives of a selection of people during a week in December 2007. Throughout the narrative the book dips and bobs between the daily lives and troubles of the characters including [Read more...]

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With frequent nods to Bond history, Skyfall is seriously “fan-boy” pleasing