I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett (Doubleday, PB, £6.99, out now) Tiffany Aching’s fourth outing presents the intrepid young witch with her most sinister challenge yet; to see off the malicious spirit of a long-dead witch hunter, simply known as the Cunning Man. He ghosts through the populace of Tiffany’s homeland of the Chalk, […]
Chew by John Layman & Rob Guillory Available so far: Volume 1: Taster’s Choice (RRP £7.50), Volume 2: International Flavour and Volume 3: Just Desserts (both RRP £9.99), published by Image Comics. Chew is an American comic book penned by John Layman and illustrated by Rob Guillory; it centres around one Tony Chu. Tony is […]
Arrietty (U) Released in the UK on 29th july 2011. Running time: 94 mins approx. Directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, screenplay written by Hayao Miyazaki & Keiko Niwa, based upon The Borrowers by Mary Norton Voice cast: Saoirse Ronan, Mark Strong, Olivia Colman, Tom Holland, Geraldine McEwan & Phyllida Law The latest offering from Studio Ghibli […]
Norwood by Charles Portis (published by Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd, out now, £8.99) This is the debut novel from Portis, most famous for True Grit, the book that inspired two movies. Norwood was released in 1966, and featured the laconic lead, Norwood Pratt, a wandering drifter with no aim. It’s a classic tale of […]
The Search For WondLa by Tony DiTerlizzi (Simon & Schuster, PB, due out September 2011, £6.99) This is one of the most original books I’ve read in some time. You may know of Tony DiTerlizzi as being one of the co-creators, and illustrator, of The Spiderwick Chronicles. I’m a fan of that series but I […]
Despite the alarm bells in my head telling me “PUT THAT GAME DOWN” – I only went and bought it, and against the advice of a good friend (sorry, Alex, you were right). This game is bobbins. It is a proper mess that wastes a licence of such potential. It plays like a stiff, wet […]