Ordeal By Innocence: How is the show’s ending different from Agatha Christie's novel?

Agatha Christie superfans were out for blood this evening. Ordeal By Innocence’s fans quickly realised as the show was coming to its climactic finish that the killer had been changed. It has been a topic of hot debate about who killed Rachel (played by Anna Chancellor) in the BBC’s short series. This evening it was […]

Ruth Jones' Never Greener review: A captivating novel from the Gavin and Stacy star

In Ruth’s debut novel, Kate Andrews is a famous actress with a loving husband, Matt, and an effervescent young daughter, Tallulah. To the outside world, her life is perfect. But on a PR visit to a school in Scotland, she encounters teacher Callum, an older man with whom she had an affair 17 years before. […]

Fatal accident with self-driving car raises novel legal questions

The death of a pedestrian hit by a self-driving Uber vehicle in Arizona this week could offer a test of who can be held legally responsible for accidents when a human is no longer at the wheel, legal experts said. Any litigation that arises from the accident, the first fatality involving a fully autonomous vehicle, […]

A Wrinkle In Time: ‘Publishers HATED Madeleine L’Engle’s novel – it was rejected 26 times’

The hit science fantasy novel was released in 1962, but only after author L’Engle’s long struggle to get it published. According to The Washington Post, A Wrinkle In Time was hated by publishers. The author’s granddaughter, Charlotte Jones Voiklis, has spoken of how it gave her grandmother a crisis of confidence. She said: “The trouble […]

Love After Love review: A rich and rewarding novel

Nancy is a conscientious, loving mother to three children whom she and her kind, supportive husband Stef adore.  “Let this, which is so much, become enough,” she thinks.  She also enjoys a successful career as a psychologist.  But deep down she senses that something is missing from her life, “a taint at the back of […]

Star Wars 8 The Last Jedi novel LEAK: Is THIS the truth about Luke Skywalker’s 'MARRIAGE'?

There is a big three decade gap between the events of Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens, so lots of room for Lucasfilm to build on the Star Wars universe’s official canon. Of course in doing so they might take inspiration from the Expanded Universe of novels and comics written before Disney’s acquiring […]

New George Romero Zombie Novel Arriving in 2019

The Living Dead, an unfinished George Romero zombie novel, will infect bookstores in 2019. Romero died last year before he could complete writing. Now, The Shape of Water novelization author Daniel Kraus will finish the book in time for release. The Night of the Living Dead director and the father of the zombie movie as we know […]

‘I Kill Giants’ Trailer: Reality and Fantasy Blur in This Graphic Novel Adaptation

It’s been an incredible decade for graphic novel adaptations, and an even better one for coming-of-age films. I Kill Giants offers the best of both, adapting the critically-acclaimed Image Comics series from Joe Kelly and J. M. Ken Niimura, which was released in 2008. The film follows a troubled young girl who escapes from her family and school conflicts by […]