Category: Books
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NEW BOOK RELEASE – 5 WEEKS TO GO!
STATE OF DENIAL will be published 5 weeks’ today. Available to pre-order on Amazon Kindle now! Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk Amazon.ca Amazon.com.au Amazon.in The paperback version will be published simultaneously on the 27th of September.
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KARMA
Locked in the attic again, Anna incanted the spell from the book once more. Nothing happened. She threw the heavy tome out the window in frustration. Her stepfather was in the garden. The police ruled accidental death. They never found the object that had caused the blow to his head. Written for the Scottish Book…
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THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN: THE SECRET OF THE UNICORN
Odeon East Kilbride, 08.11.11 One of the nicest touches about Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson’s big screen adaptation of the boy reporter Tintin occurs just after the opening credit sequence – itself a charming animation in its own right as it follows the distinctive silhouette of Tintin on a foot chase through Hergé’s memorable world. We are then situated in a…
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THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE MULTIPLEX: WHAT’S WRONG WITH MODERN MOVIES?
by Mark Kermode Mark Kermode and I have a number of disagreements about films. Not that he is aware of them of course, having never met me or read anything I have written or said about films (despite the fact he has worked on BBC TWO’s The Culture Show, as I have in the edit,…
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ONE DAY
Odeon East Kilbride, 24.08.11 The novel One Day by David Nicholls takes the typical boy meets girl story and spreads it over twenty years by focusing on where each of the main characters, Emma and Dexter, are on one day – the 15th of July – every year from 1988 to 2008. It’s a neat trick…
Iain Kelly 