Blackett Throws Up H...

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 world into some sort of frenzy and I can’t bring myself to care. So during these...

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 a crotchety old man (played in this adap by...

Book Club: Twilight ...

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 live with her father in small town Forks after her mother goes traveling...

Blakeborough’s...

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 already know this, as I’m hoping some...

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 of different photographs, toys and...

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 a writing career off of his own...