REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES BY SHELBY VAN PELT, Ecco and HarperCollins, 2022 - Set in the Puget Sound area of Northern Washington state in the small fictional town of Sowell Bay, Remarkably Bright Creatures is a story about two lost souls being connected by Marcellus, a sixty pound giant Pacific octopus who has been trapped in …
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After WWII, Jewish people held the moral high ground - six million victims fed to the Nazi furnaces while the world did nothing. The state of Israel may only exist because of the collective guilt of the western powers, shamed at choosing to look the other way before and during the war. When the lessons …
Austen at Sea by Natalie Jenner - St. Martin’s Press, 2025 - Set in the American post-civil war era, the story revolves around two sets of American siblings, Henrietta and Charlotte Stevenson, the daughters of a Massachusetts Supreme Court Justice, and Nicholas and Hazlett Nelson, veterans of the civil war, who operate a rare bookshop …
Fisk - Australian series from 2021 with three seasons on Netflix - I’m rather partial to off-beat humor and Fisk is one of the funniest things to escape Australia since Barry Humphries found drag, a dazzling pair of gigantic sunglasses and became Dame Edna. Helen-Tudor Fisk (played by Kittie Flanagan) is a lawyer looking for …
More trouble fermenting in the Middle Yeast. Are you one of those who finds it hard to know what’s up without a PROGRAMME to the conflict? As a public service, this selfless scribe will provide a ring side blow-by-blow for those who can’t enjoy the fickle festivities of slaughter first-hand. On one side, we have …
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Weyward by Emilia Hart, St. Martin’s Press - 2023 - Weyward is a novel with elements of fantasy that tells the story of three women, all connected in lineage, all with a supernatural connection to nature and who all lead lives that are impacted by violent men. The first is Altha, living in the early …
Moonflower Murders - PBS Masterpiece series. - This six part mini-series is a sequel to Magpie Murders with both films based on books by Anthony Horowitz. Whether you enjoy murder mysteries in contemporary settings or prefer your sleuths working in period settings, here’s a story that cleverly combines both. Susan Ryeland (played by Lesley Manville) was …
Nobody Wants This is a 2024 Netflix series of 10 episodes with a second season to be released in October of this year. It’s an offbeat romantic comedy about Joanne (played by Kristen Bell from The Good Place) who, with her sister Morgan (played by Justine Lupe), co-host a podcast about sex and relationships. Joanne …
THE LADY’S’ COMPANION is a 2025 Netflix eight part series. It might be described as a Spanish period romantic comedy set in what looks like it might be late 19th Century Madrid. It features an occasionally witty script interspersed with narration with asides to the audience from the main character, Elena Bianda (played by Nadia …
The Residence is a 2025 eight part Netflix mini-series created by Shondaland productions. It’s described as a comedy/mystery/drama and stars Uzo Aduba as consulting detective Cordellia Cup. Cordellia is in the Sherlock Holmes tradition of detectives - similar methodology but differing perhaps in that she has an obsession with birding rather than playing the violin. …
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