The Explorer
★★★☆☆
A group of children are marooned in the Amazon jungle when their plane crashes. They meet an explorer, a man who has forsaken civilization in favour of living his life out in the jungle. But will he help get the children rescued?
The Last Hunter
★★☆☆☆
Captain Jack Romanov of the space force is being drummed out of the navy. But some political game sees him shunted to another division, promoted, and in charge of a old relic of a battleship. The only battleship capable of repelling the aliens who are just attacking....
Never Let Me Go
★★★★☆
Kathy H, a carer for donors, reminisces about her time at Hailsham, a private institution where she spent her formative years, and her friends.
The Lincoln Lawyer
★★★★☆
Mickey Haller is a criminal defense lawyer who works from the back of his Lincoln Town Car, mostly with decidedly guilty clients. Then a very high-paying job drops in his lap, where the client insists he is innocent...
Under the Skin
★★★★☆
Isserley drives around in her car, and picks up big muscular hitch-hikers on the highways around Scotland. She talks to them, understanding their lives, where they are headed and whether they have families and relatives who will miss them when she is done with them.
A Gentleman in Moscow
★★★★★
A Russian nobleman is sentenced to life imprisonment in a luxurious hotel in Moscow. But the indomitable Count takes his circumstances in his stride, never losing his spirit or deep humanity.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
★☆☆☆☆
A study into how we live, and how to be better at living, set around a narrative of a father-son motorcycle trip across the American Northwest.
The Turn of the Screw
★☆☆☆☆
A young governess is sent to a remote estate to care for two beautiful children, who are oddly distant and wholly disconcerting...
The Stars My Destination (Tiger! Tiger!)
★★★★★
In a far future universe where people travel by thought, a barely articulate menial survivor from an inter-planetary vessel escapes jail to wreak havoc, and change the world...
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
★★★★★
A delightful and charming story set in the aftermath of WW2, presented as a collection of correspondences between Juliet Ashton, an author, and the residents of the Channel island of Guernsey
Girl with a Pearl Earring
★★★★★
An imagining of the story behind the enigmatic eponymous girl from Vermeer's painting, the dutch Mona Lisa.
Interview With The Vampire
★★★★☆
The vampire Louis recounts his life story, and his journey to find meaning and connection in his immortal existence
Endless Night
★★★★★
Some are born to sweet delights, and some are born to the night that will engulf all, even those aforementioned, born to sweet delights