The Stuff of Nightmares starts with a bang. Quite literally. The latest in a spate of bombings to hit London narrowly misses Doctor Watson and throws the reader like a rag doll into James Lovegrove’s adventure.
There comes a point while reading Apocalypse Now Now – and it’s roughly the halfway point – when you’re presented with a scene of such graphic and perverted gruesomeness that you actually feel you brain trying to shut down in order to save itself from having to picture what’s on the page.
Dusty Crophopper is a small crop-dusting plane with one ambitious dream: to compete in the famous Wings Around the World competition against some of the best racing planes on the planet.
While it may not have had quite the cultural impact of your Harry Potters, your Twilights or – more recently – your Hunger Games, the Percy Jackson & The Olympians young adult franchise managed a relatively successful transition onto the big screen in 2010.
After the turbulent, foreboding first half of Skins Rise hinted at plenty but revealed little, its second half still has a lot to explain.
You can usually tell a horror film reviewer from the slightly wretched, overwhelmingly weary look they carry off.
With battles lines drawn last season, Ellen Parsons is back in the legal ring with her one time mentor Patty Hewes for a final round. With reputations at stake, the theme tune lyrics never seemed more appropriate: “When I get through with you, there won’t be anything left.”
Representing the Davision era in this anniversary collection of Doctor Who novel reissues, ‘Fear of the Dark’ brings the Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan to a barren moon orbiting the dead word of Akoshemon in the year 2382.
You might expect a Mad Men soundtrack to be a collection of martini-smooth but mundane notes – something you can put on and forget about when you run out of Harry Belafonte vinyls but still require a musical backdrop to smoke and romance a dame to in your Manhattan bachelor pad. But Mad Men: On the Rocks turns out to be anything but ’60s make-out noise.
You’ve been here before. The Great War, fast approaching its centenary, has inspired many hundreds of stories, novels, plays, films and – yes – poems.