Category Archives: Books
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Blackett Throws Up His Week Of Media Stuff
Good Lord this is a slow news week. There is nothing new to report on Bioshock 2, no other game has jumped out of the woodwork, Imogen Heap is still working away on her album, Susan Boyle is whipping the … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Cult, DS, Features, Film, Games, Music, Nintendo, PlayStation, Wii, X Box
Tagged 24, Amanda Palmer, Bioshock, Bluetooth, britney spears, Captain Olimar, Denton, DSi, Emmy The Great, Features, Florence and the Machine, Kirbys Power Paintbrush, La Roux, New Moon, Phonography, Pikmin 2, Shock Treatment, Twilight, video, video post, You Got The Love, Zac Effron
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Skellig
There’s been advertising a go go about Sky 1′s adaptation of David Almond’s children’s novel Skellig in which a young boy, Michael, finds a strange creature in the garden shed of their new house. Skellig appears at first to be … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Features, Film, TV
Tagged david almond, Features, skellig, Sky 1, tim roth
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Book Club: Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
The story of Twilight isn’t that complex instead attempting to focus on the strong emotions that teenager Bella feels as she falls in love for the first time. Bella is 17 and decides to move from big city Pheonix to … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Features
Tagged Book Club, Chastity, Feature, Featured, Features, Stephanie Meyer, Twilight
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Blakeborough’s Book Club: 20th Century Ghosts
Its been mentioned here…somewhere… and on our Facebook group and now the time for me to unveil the very first month of my Book Club. Ta-dah!! And the first book is… Joe Hill’s 20th Century Ghosts!! Woo! Although you should … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Columns, Features
Tagged 20th century ghosts, amanda boyle, Features, Gay, heart shaped box, Joe Hill, Locke and Key, pop art
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Coraline boxes
Its fairly obvious that we’re all super excited about Coraline, so forgive me if everyone has already seen this. The makers of Coraline distributed fifty completely unique handmade boxes, one to each of their favourite fifty bloggers with a collection … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Cult, Features, Film
Tagged bloggers, Coraline, Evil Buttons, Features, neil gaiman
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Heart Shaped Box
I still can’t quite make up my mind completely about ‘Locke and Key’ writer Joe Hill’s debut novel. Coming from an enviable horror heritage, Hill is Stephen King’s son but chose to eschew his famous surname in favour of making … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Features
Tagged heart shaped box, Joe Hill, judas coyne, Locke and Key, stephen king
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Not Our Face: Flesh house – Stuart MacBride
I can’t really be bothered to look it up, but how much crime is there in Aberdeen? Nothing springs out at me from the deep mines of trivia I call my mind, except that some Wolverhampton based gangsters went to … Continue reading
Michael Crichton
Swept up in the excitement and constant coverage of the US’s brand spanking new president elect I almost missed the fact that a writer whose work I admire and love very much has died today after a battle with cancer. … Continue reading
Doctor Who: The Writer’s Tale. By Russel T. Davies and Benjamin Cook
I am sad to say that a book that has the Doctor Who logo on the front has mooved me to tears, full on floods weeping inside and out tears. But on the plus side it is not for any … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Doctor Who, Features
Tagged Benjamin Cook, Doctor Who, Russel T. Davies, The Writer's Tale
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