http://stephencashmore.com Stephen's blog http://stephencashmore.com/viewpost.php?post=20250322204838 http://stephencashmore.com/viewPost.php?post=20250322204838 I don't think it's giving too much away to say got a bit of a shock when I started reading Midnight and Blue, because Rebus is banged up in prison. Of course, a murder takes place in prison and he starts sticking his nose in. Meanwhile, there's a missing girl problem outside, together with the u... http://stephencashmore.com/viewpost.php?post=20250322203742 http://stephencashmore.com/viewPost.php?post=20250322203742 This book got so many positive reviews in various places, and so many people referred to it as a masterpiece, that I thought I'd better read it. What did I think? Well, it might not be a masterpiece but it's pretty close to it. It's set in a part fantasy, part Arthurian England and basically... http://stephencashmore.com/viewpost.php?post=20250322203241 http://stephencashmore.com/viewPost.php?post=20250322203241 Because Anora was something of an unexpected Oscars sensation, it appeared in Ayr cinema mere days after the ceremony. When we went to see it, we knew it was something like a more gritty, realistic Pretty Woman, and the lead female won the Oscar, but that was about it. We both thought it started... http://stephencashmore.com/viewpost.php?post=20250322202342 http://stephencashmore.com/viewPost.php?post=20250322202342 Needless to say I did not take Ivy to see Nosferatu at the cinema. But it appeared on Amazon Prime so one evening when she deserted me, I sat in a darkened room and watched it on the TV. It's not bad. I wouldn't say it's a masterpiece, and there are a handful of places (mainly at the start) whic... http://stephencashmore.com/viewpost.php?post=20250322201827 http://stephencashmore.com/viewPost.php?post=20250322201827 Ivy and I decided to take a road trip the other week. 'We've got a little sports car,' she told me, 'so perhaps we should use it.' Good point, I thought, and over a period of a few days we went to: Penrith My uncle's, in Ingleby Barwick (look it up!) Mansfield, where we were supposed... http://stephencashmore.com/viewpost.php?post=20250322201222 http://stephencashmore.com/viewPost.php?post=20250322201222 Many of you will know about my collection of 'spooky stories to read aloud', As They Grow Older. It's so titled because I wrote the stories for my first three children as they grew up... so the stories had to grow older too. You can find more about the stories by following the links under Writing ov... http://stephencashmore.com/viewpost.php?post=20241026224506 http://stephencashmore.com/viewPost.php?post=20241026224506 Anyone picking up this new book will almost certainly be wondering if it can be as good as The Thursday Murder Club and its sequels. Can it be as funny? Can the plot be as confusing but pleasurably coherent? Can the characters jump off the page as they did in TTMC? And the answer is... ye... http://stephencashmore.com/viewpost.php?post=20241026223936 http://stephencashmore.com/viewPost.php?post=20241026223936 I have to report that my wife (who is Chinese) and I are not the same. This has been confirmed over the years by a number of remarkable additions to the English language she has made. Some are not repeatable, But just to confirm that we are different, she has said that we are like cheese and chal... http://stephencashmore.com/viewpost.php?post=20241026223708 http://stephencashmore.com/viewPost.php?post=20241026223708 We watched this on Netfix and thoroughly enjoyed it. I confess I figured out what was going on within the first ten minutes or so, but I still enjoyed seeing how everything unravelled. Rather like Ian Mckellan in The Critic, Olivia Coleman dominated this film with an amazing performance. Worth w...