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Tag Archives: THRILLER
Can Bob Mortimer, be as funny at writing novels as he is on TV? You bet
By releasing his recent bestselling novels, The Satsuma Complex and The Hotel Avocado, Bob Mortimer, has become a complete British national treasure. Those of you wondering if TV comic royalty Bob Mortimer, might not be able to master writing comedy … Continue reading
Posted in BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, POPULAR CULTURE, READING, Uncategorized
Tagged A NOVEL, BOB MORTIMER, BOOK, books, BRITISH NATIONAL TREASURE, COMEDIAN, FUNNY, GARY, humour, THE HOTEL AVOCADO, THE SATSUMA COMPLEX, THRILLER
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Are you brave enough to scale the heights? ‘The Heights’ by Louise Candlish – a review
Louise Candlish has done it yet again with The Heights. The only way is up for this storyteller supreme! Having been mightily impressed by Louise Candlish’s last three novels (The Other Passenger, Those People and Our House), it was always … Continue reading
Posted in BOOK REVIEWS, BOOKS, death, grief, LITERATURE, POPULAR CULTURE, Uncategorized
Tagged #TheHeights, Ellen Saint, fiction, Grief, Keiran Watts, Louise Candlish, Our House, psychological thriller, SUSPENSE, The Heights, those people, THRILLER, Vic
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Our House by Louise Candlish – a review. Whose house is it?
Fi Lawson comes home to find two strange people moving into her lavish house. The problem is that she never put it on the market for sale in the first place! Our House by Louise Candlish, is a critically acclaimed … Continue reading
Posted in BOOKS, POPULAR CULTURE, THRILLERS, Uncategorized
Tagged blackmail, BOOK REVIEW, Bram Lawson, Fi Lawson, Infidelity, Louise Candlish, Our House, those people, THRILLER, TRUST, UK book
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MotherFatherSon – series one – episode one – a review.
MotherFatherSon, a powerful stylistic BBC Two thriller that promised so much with a stellar cast, and in the main this first episode duly delivered. You had to concentrate all the way through this though, otherwise you would have felt snookered … Continue reading
Posted in BBC, BBC DRAMA, BBC ORIGINAL DRAMA, EMOTION, ENTERTAINMENT, MENTAL HEALTH, POPULAR CULTURE, SARAH LANCASHIRE, TELEVISION, THE ARTS, TV, TV REVIEW, UK TV, Uncategorized
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I’VE FALLEN IN LOVE AGAIN………..WITH ‘THE AMERICANS’! ‘The Americans’, review of season 3.
It is official, I’ve fallen in love again with The Americans, but in all honesty I’d never really fallen out of love with it since ITV1 stopped showing it a few years ago. Recently, I finally twigged(bit of a technophobe … Continue reading
Posted in DRAMA, ENTERTAINMENT, ITV1, POPULAR CULTURE, RANT, TELEVISION, THE AMERICANS, THE ARTS, TV, TV REVIEW, Uncategorized
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The woman with a plan! ‘EILEEN’ by Ottessa Moshfegh – A REVIEW.
A sure way of knowing you’ve enjoyed a good book is when you’re sorry to have finished it, this is what has happened to me recently with the novel Eileen written by Ottessa Moshfegh! Not the best novel that I’ve ever … Continue reading
Posted in BOOK REVIEWS, EMOTION, ENTERTAINMENT, lesbianism, POPULAR CULTURE, THE ARTS, Uncategorized
Tagged #BOOKCRITIC, #bookReview, #FICTIONREVIEWS, 2016, alcoholic, AMERICA, BOOK REVIEW, book reviews, BOOK THRILLER, books, BOSTON, EILEEN, EILEEN BY MOTTESSA MOSHFEGH, EILEEN THE BOOK, entertainment, FEMALES IN BOOKS, females in fiction, fiction, LITERARY REVIEW, literature, literature review, man booker shortlisted, moorehead, OTTESSA MOSHFEGH, popular culture, psychological thriller, Randy, reading, Rebecca, REVIEW, THE ARTS, THRILLER, UNCATEGORISED, UNCATEGORIZED, X-ville
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THE MISSING – series 2, a review. ADDICTIVE, ENGROSSING…..AND IT WASN’T TOO COMPLICATED!
Wednesday December 7th 2016 was a bad day all-round for me. Firstly, I woke up and remembered that it was my fortieth birthday(I still feel only twenty), then the double whammy was realising that the outstanding BBC One abduction thriller … Continue reading
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‘The Missing’ – THE COOLEST RETIRED DETECTIVE ON THE PLANET! Series 2, episode 1 review.
Now and again you quite literally get bowled over by a new programme that comes on the telly. You go to bed thinking about it, you wake up thinking about it and you cannot wait for the next episode to … Continue reading
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IT ENDED WITH A RIGHT BIG BANG!! ‘Happy Valley’ Review. Episode 5, series 2.
What with two murders, an off duty female PCSO bonking some random guy outside a nightclub and Sargent Cawood doing her best Karate Kid impression as she apprehended her sister’s drunken boyfriend, you could therefore say Happy Valley was a rather … Continue reading
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HEARTBREAKING LOVE STORY, BUT THE MURDER PLOT LET IT DOWN! River- Episode six review.
Last night the sixth and final episode of the gripping crime drama River was shown on BBC1. At the end of episode four I went around telling everybody how utterly brilliant I thought this programme was. Therefore, I was shocked … Continue reading
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