![]() ![]() His works include Byzantium, Patrick, and the series The Pendragon Cycle, The Celtic Crusades, and The Song of Albion. Lawhead is an internationally acclaimed author of mythic history and imaginative fiction. ![]() Lawhead's masterful retelling of the Robin Hood legend reaches its stunning conclusion in "Tuck." ![]() Filled with unforgettable characters, breathtaking suspense, and rousing battle scenes, Stephen R. Lawhead conjures an ancient past while holding a mirror to contemporary realities. This epic trilogy dares to shatter everything you thought you knew about Robin Hood as Stephen R. Deceived by the self-serving King William and hunted by the treacherous Abbot Hugo and Sheriff de Glanville, Rhi Bran is forced again to take matters into his own hands as King Raven.Īlong the way Friar Tuck has been the stalwart supporter of the man behind the legend-bringing Rhi Bran much-needed guidance, wit, and faithful companionship.Īided by Tuck and his small but determined band of forest-dwelling outlaws, Rhi Bran ignites a rebellion that spreads through the Welsh valleys, forcing the wily monarch to marshal his army and march against little Elfael. ![]() King Raven has brought hope to the oppressed people of Wales-and fear to their Norman overlords. "Pray God our aim is true and each arrow finds its mark." ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While he fights university bureaucracy and illness to try and locate her, his favourite pupil is unaware she has been dropped into the middle of what will swiftly become a holocaust. Only her tutor and father-figure, Mr Dunworthy, suspects that something is amiss. There is no one to even realise Kivrin’s drop has gone wrong, let alone get her back. In 2054, a savage strain of influenza cuts through Oxford, wiping out most of the History faculty, including everyone operating the time travel device. An error in the programming sends PHD student Kivrin Engle back, not to her anticipated date of 1320, but instead to 1348, the year of the Black Death.įrom here the story unfolds in parallel. First published in 1992, the book is set in 2054, when scientists at Oxford University are beginning to unravel the secrets of time travel. Please be aware that this review contains spoilers.ĭoomsday Book is widely regarded as an SF classic, the first book in the acclaimed Oxford Time Travel series. ![]() ![]() ![]() She lives and works in a small town in England, surrounded by farmland and trees and accompanied by a little, black cat. She leapt straight into a career as a professional children's book illustrator and hasn't looked back since. Drawing always seemed like so much fun, but she never dreamed it could be a full-time job! She studied art and practiced drawing every day, and in no time, she went on to graduate from the University of Lincoln (UK), having specialized in illustration. You can follow her on Instagram Fleming has been an avid doodler and bookworm since early childhood. Linsey lives in New York with her husband and son, who is her biggest inspiration. ![]() She is a correspondent filing reports for World News Tonight, Good Morning America, 20/20, and Nightline and is also the bestselling author of the children's books The World Is Awake, One Big Heart, and Stay This Way Forever. Linsey Davis is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and an anchor for ABC News Live Prime, which is ABC News Live's first-ever streaming evening newscast, and weekend World News Tonight on Sundays. ![]() ![]() ![]() To the actors’ credit, they commit but it’s such a stupid mythology. Eventually, proprietors Ellie (Freda Foh Shen) and Sam (Nicholas Campbell) monologue the whole backstory of their operation. The B&B has a roach problem and Jenna sees scary people in the walls. ![]() Jenna runs away to Los Angeles, but stops at a B&B because she needs a break from the eating sounds on the bus. That’s actually a very relevant subject for a horror story but it’s not the main focus of Books of Blood. ![]() Jenna suffers from misophonia, which makes the loud sounds of people eating and other annoyances physically painful. ‘Books of Blood’ Volume 1Īfter a wraparound intro where a librarian tells a loan shark (Yul Vasquez) where to find the valuable Book of Blood, the actual first story is about Jenna (Britt Robertson). But, he’s also responsible for Shawshank Redemption, Misery, The Shining, two Pet Sematarys and several Carries! Books of Blood takes Barker’s short stories and makes a series of bad choices. There are always some Graveyard Shifts, Maximum Overdrives and Silver Bullets. Unfortunately, Books of Blood won’t do anything to improve the standing of horror films based on Barker stories. Nightbreed was compromised from the beginning, Lord of Illusions was just kind of there and Midnight Meat Train was downright sabotaged. Hellraiser got off to a good start before that whole franchise collapsed. Boy, Clive Barker has struggled a lot more with movie adaptations than Stephen King. ![]() ![]() Much like the drinks served at the Night of Joy, the dive bar in New Orleans around which the plot spins, the stage version feels watered down. ![]() Hatcher has made an honorable attempt to capture the Rabelaisian spirit of the novel, he and the production’s director, David Esbjornson, have not been able to seize hold of its inimitable genius and make it bloom, or bloat, into ripe life. He is surrounded, as in the book, by the riotous assortment of fools and knaves gabbling, carping, sniping and generally distracting the great Ignatius from his monumental philosophical work, in which he will prove beyond doubt that civilization has been snowballing downhill since the Middle Ages.īut perhaps inevitably, in clambering from the pages of Toole’s capacious book onto the Huntington stage, where the rigors of dramatic form can pinch, Ignatius and company seem to have lost some of their seedy, vicious charm, and Ignatius himself some of his unforgettable comic girth.Īlthough Mr. ![]() Reilly, the blimp-sized, eloquently imperious, gastrically challenged antihero of John Kennedy Toole’s long-celebrated 1980 novel “A Confederacy of Dunces” has at last made it to the stage, in the person of Nick Offerman, of “Parks and Recreation” fame, in an adaptation by Jeffrey Hatcher having its premiere at the Huntington Theater Company here. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lehtinen’s boat sank, and the Finnish skipper was stranded for over 24 hours in the southern Indian Ocean. Not only did Neuschäfer win, but during the race the South African diverted from her path to rescue fellow competitor Tapio Lehtinen. In Les Sables d’Olonne, we are happy and proud to see her legend born.” “By her sporting feat, her courage, her heroism … Kirsten became a model and a world reference. It is truly a historic moment that we have just experienced inLes Sables-d’Olonne,” said Moreau. “The only woman at the start of the longest sporting event in the world came out on top and became a legend. The mayor of Les Sables-d’Olonne Yannick Moreau praised the magnitude of the 40-year-old Neuschäfer’s achievement. ![]() I didn’t want to be in a separate category but to compete on equal terms with all the skippers.” Neuschäfer also touched on the issue of gender given she was the only woman in the race, adding: “I wanted to win, not as a woman. ![]() I had the will to win as soon as I registered for the race and I did all my preparations accordingly.” “It’s a fast, elegant boat, on which I worked a lot for a year. ![]() I even got angry with her, but I love her very much,” the victor explained per Sail-World. Olivier Blanchet/ALeA/Getty ImagesĪfter finishing with an official time of 233 days, 20 hours, 43 minutes and 47 seconds, Neuschäfer said her boat – Minnehaha – had been her “companion,” throughout the adventure. Neuschäfer became the first women to ever win the race. ![]() ![]() In Europe, his nonfiction has appeared in Paris Match, Gente, and The Guardian.Īlexander is the author of the plays Strangers in the Land of Canaan and Edge, which he directed. ![]() Machiavelli’s Shadow, a book about Karl Rove, was just published by Rodale.Ī former reporter for Time, Alexander has published nonfiction in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, New York, The Nation, The Village Voice, Worth, The New York Observer, George, Cosmopolitan, More, Interview, ARTnews, Mirabella, Premiere, Out, The Advocate, Travel & Leisure, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, Biography, Men’s Journal, Best Life, but mostly Rolling Stone. Salinger The Candidate, a chronicle of John Kerry’s presidential campaign and Man of the People, a biography of John McCain, soon to be re-released. ![]() Paul Alexander is the editor of the essay collection Ariel Ascending: Writings About Sylvia Plath and the author of Rough Magic, a biography of Plath Boulevard of Broken Dreams, the best-selling biography of James Dean Death and Disaster, a book about the death and estate of Andy Warhol Salinger, a biography of J.D. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() James Gordon ( Jeffrey Wright) - amongst the city’s corrupt network of officials and high-profile figures, the lone vigilante has established himself as the sole embodiment of vengeance amongst his fellow citizens. With only a few trusted allies - Alfred Pennyworth ( Andy Serkis), Lt. “Two years of stalking the streets as the Batman ( Robert Pattinson), striking fear into the hearts of criminals, has led Bruce Wayne deep into the shadows of Gotham City. “ I liked the idea of the car itself as a horror figure, making an animalistic appearance to really scare the hell out of the people Batman’s pursuing,” Reeves continues. Reeves explains the film’s Batmobile, “It has to make an appearance out of the shadows to intimidate, so I thought of it almost like Stephen King’s Christine.” ![]() Speaking with Empire Magazine, Reeves notes that Christine was an inspiration on his Batman! We’re of course talking about the Stephen King killer car novel, which became a John Carpenter movie. We’re now just a few months away from the release, and Matt Reeves has been making the interview rounds in promotion of his first foray into the world of Gotham City. From director Matt Reeves, The Batmanwill release in theaters on March 4, 2022, a brand new reboot that includes everyone from Catwoman to the Riddler and the Penguin. ![]() ![]() The boys wore jeans and T-shirts girls like me wore a jalabiya, which is a long, shapeless dress that covers your whole body. Good girls learn to take care of a house for a husband they wear hijabs to show that they are good. But she would only say, “If you’re a girl, you behave like a girl. I asked her why older girls and women wore hijabs. When I was seven, I asked my mother why I couldn’t play outside. Now she has written a book Rebel, which explains why she was so desperate to escape, and what it was like growing up as a woman in Saudi Arabia. Happily for Mohammed (she dropped her family name of al-Qunun), Canada soon offered her asylum. Her face was beamed around the world her story covered by television networks and newspapers, who framed her plight as the ultimate escape from Saudi Arabia’s repressive regime. Within hours, the hashtag #SaveRahaf was trending, and by the end of the day her Twitter following had jumped from 24 followers to 27,000. ![]() ![]() I’m now in real danger because the Saudi embassy is trying to force me to return,” she posted in Arabic. Fast running out of options, she picked up her phone and started tweeting. However, at Bangkok airport she was detained by officials. ![]() It was January 2019 and the Saudi teenager had been on holiday with her family in Kuwait when she slipped away, intent on flying to Australia and claiming asylum. Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun was just 18 when she captured the world’s attention. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her headmaster at St Michael's, Alfred Dunn, has been suggested as the inspiration for the Harry Potter headmaster Albus Dumbledore.Īs a child, Rowling often wrote fantasy stories, which she would usually then read to her sister. She attended St Michael's Primary School, a school founded by abolitionist William Wilberforce and education reformer Hannah More. The family moved to the nearby village Winterbourne when Rowling was four. Rowling's sister Dianne was born at their home when Rowling was 23 months old. Her mother's paternal grandfather, Louis Volant, was awarded the Croix de Guerre for exceptional bravery in defending the village of Courcelles-le-Comte during the First World War. Her mother's maternal grandfather, Dugald Campbell, was born in Lamlash on the Isle of Arran. Her parents first met on a train departing from King's Cross Station bound for Arbroath in 1964. Her mother Anne was half-French and half-Scottish. Rowling was born to Anne Rowling (née Volant) and Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer, on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Bristol. ![]() NOTE: There is more than one author with this name on Goodreads. ![]() Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series and The Casual Vacancy, a novel for adults. ![]() |