Wandering the world

Clare Mackintosh is a British author with an interesting background. She studied French and Management at university and spent a year as a bilingual secretary in Paris as part of her program. After graduation she joined the police force, first becoming a sergeant in Chipping Norton and later Operations Inspector for Thames Valley Police in Oxfordshire. Mackintosh left the police force in 2011 to become a writer full time. Mackintosh now lives in rural north Wales and has foun

Fiona Barton is a British author who started her writing career as a journalist, covering notorious crimes and trials for a bunch of daily newspapers. She has penned two series, one featuring journalist, Kate Waters, and the other featuring Detective Elise King. I'd rate Barton as a solid thriller writer, not at the top of my list of writers of the genre, but still worth the read. This post reviews the three Kate Waters books: The widow (2016), The child (2017) and The suspe

I waited a whole year to see Lee after seeing the preview for the film at the end of 2023. Kate Winslet is my favourite actor and I would run to the cinema to see anything that she is in. I understand that Lee was a passion project for her. Kate was the drawcard but I was also interested in the subject of the film - model-turned-photographer, Lee Miller - who was a trailblazing war photographer. Lee features in the infamous shot of herself in Hitler's bath tub in this private

I saw There's still tomorrow at the 2024 Brisbane Italian Film Festival. This was a new experience for me as I'd never seen an Italian film before. I liked the idea of the post-war 1940s setting and what I thought was going to be a feminist perspective on breaking away from traditional familial expectations. The film was the highest grossing film of 2023 in Italy and the number one film at the Brisbane Italian Film Festival. I had high hopes! There's still tomorrow | Released