Blogs in December 2024

Three Days in June 11th December 2024

It’s the day before her daughter’s wedding and things are not going well for Gail Baines. First thing, she loses her job – or quits, depending who you ask. Then her ex-husband Max turns up at her door expecting...

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The Silence of the Lambs 3rd May 2024

FBI trainee Clarice Starling has an elusive serial killer to hunt. Only one man can help. Psychopathic cannibal Hannibal Lecter… The serial killer nicknamed ‘Buffalo Bill’ has been capturing and starving women, then murdering and skinning them. FBI rookie...

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French Braid 3rd July 2023

When Mercy Garrett moves herself out of the family home, everyone determines not to notice. All she wants is space and silence. No clutter. Not even their cat, Desmond. But it turns out family life is impossible to escape...

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Mary Jane 7th June 2021

In 1970s Baltimore, fourteen-year-old Mary Jane loves cooking with her mother, singing in her church choir, and enjoying her family’s subscription to the Broadway Showtunes of the Month record club. Shy, quiet, and bookish, she’s glad when she lands...

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They Know Not What They Do 19th April 2020

Family dysfunction, digital technologies and animal rights activism in Helsinki and Baltimore. Winner of the Finlandia Prize in 2014.

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