Last Night in the OR by Bud Shaw6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() TV includes: The Diplomat (World Productions) Wheel of Time S2 (Amazon Prime) Hard Cell (Netflix/Leopard Productions) Father Brown (BBC One) Coronation Street (ITV) The Emily Atack Show (ITV) The Split (Sister Pictures) Training Days (Studio M) Ransom (CBS/Big Light Productions) Dead Pixels (E4) Waffle the Wonderdog (CBBC) Thanks for the Memories (ZDF) Holby City (BBC) Silent Witness (BBC) WPC 56 (BBC) and Doctors (BBC).įilm includes: Caribbean Summer (Hallmark) and Death on the Nile (Fox UK Productions). Theatre includes: Gloria Matienne in The Magician's Elephant (RSC) Louise in Gypsy (Royal Exchange Theatre) Dora in Wise Children (Old Vic and UK Tour) The Two Noble Kinsmen (Shakespeare's Globe) Carrie in Eugenius! (The Other Palace) One Love: The Bob Marley Musical (Birmingham Rep) Annie Get Your Gun (Sheffield Crucible) A Midsummer Night's Dream (Theatre Royal Bath) Nikki Marron in The Bodyguard and Bombalurina in Cats (UK Tour) Guys and Dolls (Chichester Festival Theatre) and Anita in West Side Story (RSC and Sage, Gateshead). ![]()
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The city of saints and madmen6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() And a patient in a mental institution is convinced he has made up a city called Ambergris, imagined its every last detail, and that he’s really from a place called Chicago.īy turns sensuous and terrifying, filled with exotica and eroticism, this interwoven collection of stories, histories, and “eyewitness” reports invokes a universe within a puzzle box where you can lose - and find - yourself again. From Jeff VanderMeer, an author praised by writers such as Laren Beukes, China Miville and Michael Moorcock, City of Saints and Madmen is by turns sensuous. An artist receives an invitation to a beheading - and finds himself enchanted. From the author of Borne and Annihilation comes the one-volume hardcover reissue of his cult classic Ambergris Trilogy. In Ambergris, a would-be suitor discovers that a sunlit street can become a killing ground in the blink of an eye. ![]() And everywhere, on the walls of courtyards and churches, an incandescent fungus of mysterious and ominous origin. You hold in your hands an invitation to a place unlike any you’ve ever visited - an invitation delivered by one of our most audacious and astonishing literary magicians.Ĭity of elegance and squalor. From New York Times bestselling author Jeff VanderMeer comes the one-volume reissue of his cult classic Ambergris Trilogy: City of Saints and Madmen, Finch. ![]() In City of Saints and Madmen, Jeff VanderMeer has reinvented the literature of the fantastic. ![]() Monkey grip book review6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() I popped up, hanging on to the rail, hair streaming on my neck. I rolled and rolled in the water, deafening my ears while I thought of, and discarded, all the reasons why I shouldn't go. Her novels include Monkey Grip, The Children's Bach, Cosmo Cosmolino and The Spare Room. In 2006 she received the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature, and in 2016 she won the prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction. Helen Garneris one of Australia's finest authors. When Nora falls in love with Javo, she is caught in the web of his addiction and as he moves between loving her and leaving, between his need for her and promises broken, Nora's life becomes an intense dance of loving and trying to let go. ![]() Today, Monkey Gripis regarded as a masterpiece - the novel that shines a light on a time and a place and a way of living never before presented in Australian literature: communal households, music, friendships, children, love, drugs and sex. Helen Garner's gritty, lyrical first novel divided the critics on its publication in 1977. ![]() Goodreads lock every door6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() What she discovers pits Jules against the clock as she races to unmask a killer, expose the building’s hidden past, and escape the Bartholomew before her temporary status becomes permanent. Searching for the truth about Ingrid’s disappearance, Jules digs deeper into the Bartholomew's sordid past and into the secrets kept within its walls. until the next day, when Ingrid disappears. When Ingrid confides that the Bartholomew is not what it seems and the dark history hidden beneath its gleaming facade is starting to frighten her, Jules brushes it off as a harmless ghost story. ![]() Recently heartbroken and just plain broke, Jules is taken in by the splendor of her surroundings and accepts the terms, ready to leave her past life behind.Īs she gets to know the residents and staff of the Bartholomew, Jules finds herself drawn to fellow apartment sitter Ingrid, who comfortingly reminds her of the sister she lost eight years ago. ![]() These are the only rules for Jules Larsen’s new job as an apartment sitter at the Bartholomew, one of Manhattan's most high-profile and mysterious buildings. No disturbing the other residents, all of whom are rich or famous or both. The next heart-pounding thriller from New York Times bestselling author Riley Sager follows a young woman whose new job apartment sitting in one of New York’s oldest and most glamorous buildings may cost more than it pays. ![]() |