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Film reviews: The Jungle Book, Eye In The Sky and Criminal

Posted: April 18, 2016 at 5:27 am   /   Movies

IT’S The Revenant for children! The grisly Leonardo DiCaprio survival epic may seem an unlikely companion piece to The Jungle Book but that’s how some in America are describing Disney’s new live-action version of Rudyard Kipling’s classic and that’s not as mad as it sounds. Daily Express :: Films Feed

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Film reviews: The Jungle Book, Eye In The Sky and Criminal

Posted: April 15, 2016 at 5:20 am   /   Movies

NOBODY could hope to improve upon Disney’s classic animated adaptation of The Jungle Book but Iron Man director Jon Favreau comes pretty close. Daily Express :: Films Feed

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Book reviews: All At Sea, The Black Door and Maestra

Posted: April 8, 2016 at 5:23 pm   /   Books

IT’S hard to imagine a more traumatic opening to a book than the first chapter of Decca Aitkenhead’s memoir All At Sea. Daily Express :: Books Feed

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Book reviews: Fellside, Fever At Dawn and The One-In-A-Million Boy

Posted: April 3, 2016 at 5:23 pm   /   Books

FROM death and tragedy, lives are given new hope. Daily Express :: Books Feed

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Love, history and a special coffee shop: Book reviews

Posted: April 1, 2016 at 5:23 pm   /   Books

DISCOVER three exciting new books with us. Daily Express :: Books Feed

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Book review: Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ‘n’ Roll by Peter Guralnick

Posted: March 29, 2016 at 5:24 pm   /   Books

THE Mississippi River, sweltering cotton fields, segregation and the blues all evoke 1950s Deep South America, an era brought to vivid life in this brilliant and absorbing biography about legendary record producer Sam Phillips. Daily Express :: Books Feed

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Book Reviews: Staring At Lakes, Six Four and The Forgetting Time

Posted: March 18, 2016 at 5:23 pm   /   Books

WE review books about isolation, chaos and reincarnation. Daily Express :: Books Feed

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Book reviews: Stars, Cars And Crystal Meth and At The Edge Of The Orchard

Posted: March 13, 2016 at 5:28 pm   /   Books

WE review contrasting tales of troubled men driven by passions. Daily Express :: Books Feed

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Book reviews: Yarns to keep children of all ages busy over the Easter holidays

Posted: March 11, 2016 at 5:24 pm   /   Books

With the Easter holidays on the horizon, Charlotte Heathcote chooses the best new books to keep children entertained. Daily Express :: Books Feed

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Book Reviews: Being a Beast, Anatomy of a Soldier and The Silk Merchant’s Daughter

Posted: March 4, 2016 at 5:26 pm   /   Books

In 1974 the American philosopher Thomas Nagel posed the intriguing but unanswerable question, “What is it like to be a bat?” Daily Express :: Books Feed

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