Settle down for some reading this weekend with our selection of the best articles we enjoyed this past week.
Books, Podcast
Podcast: Fiction Uncovered 2013
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Rob and Kate discuss the books selected for Fiction Uncovered 2013.
Podcast
Podcast: Wait Just A Few Days More…
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This just a quick message to say that, due to an embargo, this week’s podcast will be released a few days later than usual on Thursday.
Why?
Weekend Reads
Weekend Reads: Happy Endings, Hitchcock on Psycho, The Great Gatsby Recut and more
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Settle down for some reading this weekend with our selection of the best articles we enjoyed this past week.
Books
Review: The Abomination by Jonathan Holt
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THE VICTIM: On the steps of Santa Maria della Salute lies the body of a woman, wearing the robes of a Catholic priest. In the eyes of the Church, she is an abomination.
THE INVESTIGATOR: Captain Kat Tapo has matched the victim’s tattoo to graffiti in an abandoned asylum. Now she’s been ordered to close the case.
THE HACKER: Carnivia.com is a virtual Venice that holds the city’s secrets. Only its reclusive creator can help Kat unearth the shocking truth…
THE ABOMINATION has arrived.
Books
Review: Poison by Sarah Pinborough
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It’s Snow White, but not as you know her…
Take a wicked queen, a handsome princess, and a poisoned apple…
…and now read the true story of Snow White, told the way it always should have been…
Snow White is loved throughout the kingdom. Carefree and kind, she’s won the hearts of her people and the envy of her young step-mother, who rules through fear and magic while the king fights a war far, far away. Ruling would be so much easier without everyone transfixed by the young princess. When a huntsman arrives at her door, the Queen sees her chance. All she wants is Snow White’s heart…
When you hear the phrase ‘fairy tale’, what does it make you think of? Disney? Princesses, witches, a handsome prince? In Poison, Sarah Pinborough brings us all of this and more, viewing the story through grown-up eyes and telling it for adults, while still playing with the conventions we grew up with.