The trailer for The Electrical Life of Louis Wain starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the extraordinary artist. The upcoming Louis Wain’s Cats is a treasure-trove biography, showcasing Wain’s cats in all their exuberant, animated, uninhibited glory, with over 300 plates reproduced faithfully from the original artwork.
The A Boy Called Christmas trailer is here! Watch it now and feel instantly more festive and extra magical! Coming to UK cinemas and Sky Cinema from 26 November.
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Get The Biggest Footprint learning notes for Ages 8+, that cover themes of conservation, endangered animals, and the future of our planet with activities, opportunities for discussion, and more!
Mark Cousins’ documentary The Story of Looking, a perfect companion to his book of the same name, reaches cinemas on the 17 September 2021. Watch the trailer now!
Nina has put together a playlist with a song for each essay in her book Small Bodies of Water (and two for the last one!). Listen to it here.
Read more about the story of Goody Brown – an eighteenth century girl seeking revenge for the death of her father – in Winchelsea, an intoxicating historical novel by Alex Preston, the acclaimed author of In Love and War
Jarred McGinnis’s debut novel The Coward, reviewed in the Guardian:
“Jarred’s days of being wheeled to the doughnut shop by his father, or flirting in vain with a barista named Sarah, are juxtaposed with his wild past of hopping boxcars and getting into bar fights: the result is unbearably poignant. The only way Jarred can survive it is with a lacerating gallows humour. Gags and merciless asides abound, all laced with the bitter truth of experience: ‘Paraplegia isn’t just the golden ticket to great parking and people’s condescension,’ he quips early on… The Coward is a truly uplifting emotional journey; a tender, wise, brutally funny novel that assiduously avoids the saccharine.”
Guardian
(M)otherhood in the Observer:
“In (M)otherhood, behavioural scientist Pragya Agarwal wonders if a book questioning the parental self and society’s attitudes to that self needs to define itself either as memoir or as political writing: ‘Does it really have to sit in a box?’ Here is proof that it really doesn’t: this is an exhilarating, genre-defying read… The whole thing adds up to the most thoughtful, empathic and inspiring science of the self.”
Viv Groskop
Observer
Presenting: THE BOOK OF FORM & EMPTINESS The unforgettable new novel from @TheBookerPrizes-shortlisted author of A Tale For the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki (@ozekiland). Pre-order via your local bookshop, or online at linktr.ee/thebook