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Over the last few days, tens of thousands of British people have come together to protest against the Pope and the string of atrocities for which he is responsible. In honour of this movement again Joseph Ratzinger, I have decided to remind the world of the existence of Richard Dawkins’ fantastic book, The God Delusion. Read the rest of this entry »
Melvin Burgess paints an epic picture of a dystopian future which fuses elements of fantasy and science fiction in a dark and visceral tale of war and betrayal.
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e-Books are truly remarkable things, storing thousands of books in one small device. However, many of us are saddened by the very real possibility of paper books becoming a thing of the past. Is this attachment purely one of romantic loyalty to something that’s becoming rapidly redundant?
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It’s America, post industrial revolution and a corrupt extreme left-wing government is causing an economic crisis. Funded by the steel industry, the government is not best pleased when Hank Rearden discovers a new alloy that is both stronger and cheaper than steel; so they use scientists to prevent him from bringing it to market, setting the scene for some hard-hitting anti-establishment fiction.
The last we saw of Lisbeth Salander, she was clinging to life. In The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest she is still in hospital, but is now also the victim of a conspiracy to charge her for two murders and the attempted murder of her own father! With only her doctor and Mikael Blomkvist, editor of Millennium Magazine on her side, Lisbeth’s future looks bleak – especially with a policeman in the hospital room with them at all times!
If you’re looking for something totally different to read this summer, consider Circle of Assassins by Steven Rigolosi. It is written in a style that is totally different from anything you are likely to have read before and involves everybody’s favourite subject-matter…assassinations!
Candace Smith was seven years old when her father explained her mother had run away with another man, before loading a big barrel into his pickup truck and driving far out of state to her grandparents’ house. If never even occurred to her to ask why the bathroom would smashed to pieces and drenched in blood…
In some ways, Lyra’s world is the same as ours; in other ways it is totally different. There’s an Oxford, for example, but her Oxford is home to a Jordon College, where Lyra has spent her entire childhood. It’s also primarily inhabited by humans though, as Lyra soon discovers, her world is shared by witches, fighting bears and all manner of ghasts and ghouls as well! For all the similarities however, it is the differences between our world and Lyra’s that form the foundation of this incredible story, the first book of Pullmans’ His Dark Materials – arguably one of the greatest trilogies of all time.
