The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman A Review Thirty years have passed since Philip Pullman thrilled a generation of teenagers - and many adults too - with Northern Lights, the first volume of his trilogy, His Dark Materials. Readers of the latter will recall that the story resolved satisfactorily at the end of the …
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Elektra
by Jennifer Saint I always enjoy new angles on the Greek Myths and Jennifer Saint's three novels to date are no exception. Elektra, published in 2022, is actually her second, following Ariadne (see here) and preceding Atalanta (see here). Three novels in three years is pretty good going in my view! Elektra is a story …
Goodreads and Me
I just don't know what to do with my bookshelf? (with apologies to the late Dusty Springfield) A few days ago I mentioned [https://bookheathen.wordpress.com/2016/05/03/novel-priorities/]that Amazon had transferred some of my 'data' from an old platform to Goodreads. I've been having a look at what they've done: It's a bit of a jungle. Every entry has …
Classic Reviews – Free Book
For the last few days, I've been busy collecting together some of my earliest reviews into a little book, which I have now published on Amazon Kindle. The book is now available at: http://www.amazon.com/Classic-Reviews-Andrew-G-Lockhart-ebook/dp/B01E2TNBC8 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Classic-Reviews-Andrew-G-Lockhart-ebook/dp/B01E2TNBC8 and other Amazon sites, and if you would like a copy, you'll be able to download it FREE from …
Happy New Year!
I do hope you all had a pleasant Christmas holiday! I haven't been thinking too much about blogging over the past few days, being pretty much occupied with launching my new book, It's a Fantasy World!, which is out on Amazon now. ** However, I have been reading some detective stories (three in all in …
To Boldly Go (3)
Sci-fi finds new inspiration and a new audience The film collaboration between Arthur C Clarke and Stanley Kubrick in 1968 was a landmark in the history of science fiction cinema. 2001, A Space Odyssey did indeed go boldly into new sci-fi territory. Yet, though it won an Academy Award for special visual effects and BAFTAs …
Confession Time
Readers of my recent blogs may have noticed me dropping a name, nothing really to do with the books I was reviewing. So, just in case you're wondering, I'll drop it again - Alexandre Dumas - one of the greatest storytellers who ever lived. And for me, as a devotee of historical fiction, he is …
Vampires in the Twilight
The Vampire in Literature and Cinema Part 4 What an explosion it has been! In the past, film makers drew their ideas from literature. And of course they still do. However, it appears that, in the 21st Century, cinema and television have also been a trigger for the proliferation of novels in which teeth, blood …
The Vampire Revolution
The Vampire in Literature and Cinema Part 3 While Hollywood was exploiting the talents of Lon Chaney Jr, Boris Karloff and others, the British film business had not been idle. Hammer Film Productions, who branched out into horror movies in the mid-1950s, was giving - if not glamour stardom - at least a successful villainous …
Romancing the Undead
The Vampire in Literature and Cinema Part 2 Like Stoker's Dracula, Sheridan le Fanu's Carmilla was seized upon by the public as new and bold. It helped boost le Fanu's image as a master of the gothic and of the Victorian ghost story. For all that, le Fanu's work, and Carmilla in particular, has not …
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