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  SNAPSHOT This spectacular pop-up book from paper engineers David Hawcock and Becca Zerkin forms the perfect guide to the world of AMC’s The Walking Dead. Filled with eye-catchingly gory pops, the book takes the reader through some of the most iconic moments from the hugely popular series. The book Continue Reading

  Love may be eternal but as Aziz Ansari makes plain in his book Modern Romance, the way we go about finding it has changed radically in just the course of a few generations. Gone, he notes – to be fair he worked closely with award-winning sociologist Eric Klinenberg – Continue Reading

  Sorry to break it you folks and you’re anthropomorphic-inclined hearts but cats aren’t not intrinsically romantic. Yup, in fact they’ll happily mate with anyone, don’t take a partner for life and can even have multiple partners within one very short breeding window giving you those delightful polyglot litter colourings. Continue Reading

  So what’s a young woman like Rosie Potter supposed to do? One morning she wakes up in her favourite blue flannel pajamas, feeling a little worse for wear – most likely from one of her big nights out in village of Ballycarragh that she calls home – her bedroom trashed, Continue Reading

  There is an inevitable melancholy to growing old. Even those who, in the words of Dylan Thomas, “rage, rage against the dying of the light” can’t help but feel a certain chill in the air as the years advance, a sense of regret, of things lost and never found despite Continue Reading

  If you’ve been paying keen attention since the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the newest addition to the venerable sci-fi franchise’s canon which has naturally does blockbuster business, you will have noticed that many talented artists have paid their own highly-original touching tributes to the much-loved film Continue Reading

  Room by Emma Donoghue is one of those rare, beautifully-crafted books that draws you into its world completely and absolutely and affects you profoundly in ways you couldn’t have imagined when you first pick it up. It’s hard, nay all but impossible not to be affected by the story Continue Reading

  It is a rare thing indeed to come across a book that not only possesses engaging, beguiling characters in a world that seems as real as anything physically before you but which tells their story with a lyricism and poetry so exquisite that you stop every paragraph or so to Continue Reading