![]() The comment piece added that 'honest' viewers would find the film 'devoid of any particular emotion apart from a great chill'. 'In Pullman's world, hope simply does not exist, because there is no salvation but only personal, individualistic capacity to control the situation and dominate events,' the editorial said. In a long editorial the newspaper criticised the film and the British author of the fantasy adventure Northern Lights, from which the film is adapted. When the movie was released, it was slammed as anti-Christian by Vatican newspaper l'Osservatore Romano, bringing comparisons with 2005's controversial The Da Vinci Code. ![]() The fantasy trilogy, which is aimed at both children and adults, has already been turned into a play at the National Theatre and a film called The Golden Compass but is now set to appear on the small screen for the first time. ![]() ![]() The BBC has announced it is to turn Philip Pullman's controversial fantasy trilogy 'His Dark Materials' into a drama series, despite the Catholic church having condemned the books for promoting a cold and hopeless world without God. The BBC have announced they are to turn Philip Pullman's (pictured) popular fantasy trilogy 'His Dark Materials' into their latest drama series ![]()
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For Comey to suggest that the attorney general “appeared politically compromised” without offering supportive evidence does not seem particularly ethical. ![]() The Washington Post has reported that in 2016 the FBI received a Russian intelligence document citing an email in which Lynch supposedly assured the Clinton campaign that the investigation would not go too deep, but that the document was unreliable. Of course, it is also bothersome that the former FBI director would cite vague information to imply wrongdoing by the nation’s top law-enforcement official, with the very nature of the information making it hard for her to respond. ![]() ![]() ![]() Reclusive and miserable, he hates most of his colleagues, people who eat packed lunches, and supervising junior doctors. He’s also the unexpected and reluctant heir to the vast Rossingley estate. So the last thing he needs is for the bloke from the club to be his prickly supervisor.ĭr Lucien Avery is a difficult colleague. ![]() ![]() Also an Honourable Mention in the 20-21 Rainbow Romance Awards.ĭr Jay Sorrentino is getting married in ten days’ time to the girl of his dreams, so what the hell is he doing in a gay London club with a stupidly handsome stranger? As if calling off the wedding and alienating his friends and family isn’t enough, Jay also has to contend with starting a new job at a new hospital. Nominated in five categories in the Goodreads M/M Romance Group Awards 2020-2021. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() An unusual book and the deserving winner of the Premi Documenta literary award. Mara Faye Lethem, And Other Stories A profound reflection on writing, relationships and self, that juxtaposes the inward. a text in which the feats of polar explorers give way to a central autobiographical story about the equally harsh and arid trips through family relationships and within oneself.' El País.'Simultaneously serious and light, incidental and yet trascendental.' El Periódico'A book, part essay and part autobiography, that is also a chronicle of a generation stalled in a world without horizons or certainties. Like the Poles, they are constantly shifting, and inevitably epic.' Agustín Fernández Mallo.'A unconventional look at a world that makes feel uncomfortable. SOUTH POLE There’s a store downstairs on the street level that sells frozen foods. An excerpt from Alicia Kopfs Brother in Ice (translated from the Catalan by. Alicia Kopf's genre-defying book rises as clear and cold as an Arctic sea, floating with ideas that, like icebergs, are buoyed up by meaning and memory below their surface.' Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan.'In another country this book would have changed the course of history.' Enrique Vila-Matas.'As if by sleight of hand, Kopf displays a wide range of emotions before us. ![]() |