★★★★☆
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 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.
★☆☆☆☆
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.
★☆☆☆☆
A young governess is sent to a remote estate to care for two beautiful children, who are oddly distant and wholly disconcerting...
★★★★★
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...
★★★★★
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
★★★★★
An imagining of the story behind the enigmatic eponymous girl from Vermeer's painting, the dutch Mona Lisa.
★★★★☆
The vampire Louis recounts his life story, and his journey to find meaning and connection in his immortal existence
★★★★★
Some are born to sweet delights, and some are born to the night that will engulf all, even those aforementioned, born to sweet delights
