S. J. Kinaid’s beautiful, and at times brutal, new novel takes place amid the rarefied setting of a Galactic Imperium. The Diabolic follows the story of a designer humanoid, created and conditioned to protect the daughter of a rich Senator. At a young age, the savage Nemesis is purchased and bonded to the gentle Sidonia … >
Last year, in our review of the spectacular finale to Season 1, we promised that ‘wherever Humans Season 2 is going next, we’re eager to follow’. Well, pack a bag and grab your passport. The second season of Humans is here and it’s going global, hitting all the glamorous locations on the map. Berlin! San Francisco! Bolivia! Nottingham! … >
While Debbie attempts to convince her husband that Scotland’s not actually that great a place to move to, a new hero emerges in Yonderland to do… heroisms. Let’s be real, guys: this can only end badly, can’t it? But things are going from bad to worse anyway! Cue me pantomime shouting BUT HE’S A VERY … >
After last week’s episode the Internet jury is still out on whether Ross Poldark is a rapist. Some of the audience think not, others think so. A drama about sexy mining has suddenly become a sex-offending minefield. Seeing the reaction over the past week has been like watching 12 Angry Men, if 12 Angry Men … >
Nine weeks after their rather fractious adventure in Moscow, which resulted in a bust up between the pair, we pick up with Hooten on the trail of another fabled item; this time the wish-fulfilling Chintamani jewel. Searching in the Cambodian jungle, Tomb Raider style, he is on the trail of artefacts which hold clues to … >
Well obviously, the winner of The Great British Bake Off 2016 is Candice. In practical terms, it always was going to be. A baker who was determined to do the best she could, whose meeting of own personal expectations of her levels of excellence were probably more important to her than the Bake Off trophy … >
As we head into the second episode of ITV’s new supernatural horror drama, HIM, the bright points of the show are starting to shine through. However, a few of the glaring missteps in its production are all too evident as well, leading to a mixed bag of an episode. “He kept doing that fight or … >
John Williams is a name that is truly ubiquitous when discussing film music; especially when discussing iconic film music. Last night London’s Royal Festival Hall played host to The Best of John Williams in concert. A man who is arguably a legend in his own time, Williams is responsible for so many instantly recognisable movie … >
After a busy series opener and a slightly less frenetic, if rather gory follow-up, Class settles in to its weekly pattern with ‘Nightvisiting’, which draws its beautifully macabre premise from the notion of the dead returning to visit those left behind. Despite seeing a fair amount of death on the show already, the episode focused … >
In another busy month from the Doctor Who audio producers, we celebrate Torchwood’s Tenth Anniversary with the special release ‘The Torchwood Archive’ and John Hurt returns in another trio of adventures for the ‘The War Doctor Volume 3: Agents of Chaos’. Also, those stalwart Victorian investigators of the infernal, Jago & Litefoot notch up their … >