Pat Spain is used to doing things that he acknowledges are not normal — such as lying in a pit of 200,000 snakes or having a pygmy village take excessive interest in his bathroom habits. /Sea Serpents: On the Hunt in British Columbia/ chronicles the coolest thing this host of ... more >
The Royal Family vs ‘The Crown’: Separating Fact from Fiction by Catherine Curzon Uncover the truth behind Netflix’s The Crown with this guide separating royal fact from dramatic fiction. For six seasons, royal watchers across the globe have been hooked on Netflix’s smash-hit factual drama, The Crown. Over sixty episodes, ... more >
Dear Lucy Parker, A new Lucy Parker book is always a cause for celebration and as an audio listener, I am a big fan of “audio originals” – stories that are first published as audiobooks. (Most (all?) of the time, a few months after the audio is released, the ebook ... more >
Content note: description of creepy inappropriate behaviour in the entertainment industry (not graphic) Dear Emma Barry, I was fortunate enough to have both the e-arc and the audio-arc of Bad Reputation, which meant I was able to swap between reading and listening depending on whether I could sit and read ... more >
A sharply hilarious and ultimately heartfelt novel about a former teen superstar who grudgingly agrees to a reboot of the show that made her (in)famous, from the author of Reasonable Adults. Twenty years after Ocean Views went off the air, the beloved TV show about teenage romance and angst is ... more >
Pat Spain is not a very good dancer. Nor is he a person used to wearing bikini briefs, or wrestling in front of hundreds of nomads and an international TV audience. He is certainly not a person you would expect to find wearing said bikini briefs while dancing in front ... more >