DOCSLIB.ORG

Mark Rubbo's Coronavirus Diary…

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Mark Rubbo's Coronavirus Diary… FREE APRIL 2020 Mark Rubbo’s coronavirus diary… …and great isolation reading to get you page 4 through April from page 6 BOOKS MUSIC FILM EVENTS ROGER ENO AND BRIAN ENO JULIA BAIRD SAMI TAMIMI, page 22 COUNTRY page 12 TARA WIGLEY LAURA JEAN ANNE TYLER MUSIC page 16 MCKAY page 7 page 21 page 6 CARLTON 309 LYGON ST 9347 6633 KIDS 315 LYGON ST 9341 7730 DONCASTER WESTFIELD DONCASTER, 619 DONCASTER RD 9810 0891 HAWTHORN 701 GLENFERRIE RD 9819 1917 MALVERN 185 GLENFERRIE RD 9509 1952 ST KILDA 112 ACLAND ST 9525 3852 STATE LIBRARY VICTORIA 285-321 RUSSELL ST 8664 7540 | SEE SHOP OPENING HOURS, BROWSE AND BUY ONLINE AT READINGS.COM.AU Autumn reading 26 YEARS OF INDEPENDENT from Text PUBLISHING An unmissable Drawing on his extensive A remarkable A cleaning woman Norah is told that on 11 anthology by twenty- travels—from remote collection of personal dreams of having February she will kill a four Australian provinces in China and essays, poetry and the financial freedom man she doesn’t know. grandmothers. Featuring Cambodia to pre- and criticism that reflects to write. Her life is She’s just moved to contributions from Helen post-war Yiddish Poland, on what it means to transformed when Berlin to leave her old Garner, Gillian Triggs, and Indigenous and be a woman, a body, she marries into life behind, but could Maggie Beer, Ali Cobby present-day Australia— an artist. Blueberries money—but it comes she be running into an Eckermann and more, beloved storyteller Arnold signals the arrival at a cost. Indelicacy is even more dangerous these thoughtful and Zable shares stories of of a stunning new the story of a woman future? A page-turning provoking essays reflect dispossession, survival, voice in Australian navigating gender psychological thriller about on the many aspects of healing and joy with creative non-fiction. and class roles to the slippery nature of time being a grandmother his customary insight ‘Heartstopping.’ empower herself and and destiny by bestselling in the 21st century. and compassion. Maria Tumarkin fulfil her dreams. author Melanie Raabe. MARVELLOUS MIDDLE GRADE In the late 19th century four The charming autobiography pioneering writers, Ethel Turner, of Picnic at Hanging Rock In a wonderous, snow- A sensitive and heart-warming Barbara Baynton, Nettie Palmer author Joan Lindsay covered world, rich with novel about love, change and Henry Handel Richardson, is now a Text Classic, mysterious creatures and and forgiving ourselves. changed Australia’s literary introduced by Phillip Adams. forbidden magic, one girl sets When Bea’s parents divorced, landscape, dispelling the myth A reminiscence of her out on a dangerous quest to some things changed but of bush heroism and mateship. marriage to Sir Daryl Lindsay save her sister. But first she lots stayed the same. Now, one of Australia’s most and their life and travels, must unlock her own secret Now her dad is marrying his eminent historians offers readers an Time Without Clocks also magical ability. A perfect boyfriend Jesse and, as the inside look at the intricacies of their reveals Lindsay's fascination read for fans of Nevermoor. wedding approaches, Bea is intersecting and entwined lives. with the ambiguities of time. ‘Just brilliant.’ Karen Foxlee haunted by a terrible secret. textpublishing.com.au NEWS April 2020 READINGS MONTHLY 3 nationality. The winner will be announced on operas from Wagner and Mozart, ballets Wednesday 3 June. Opera and Ballet DVD Sale from Tchaikovsky and the Bolshoi Ballet April To celebrate the 2020 opera and ballet and a host more. This offer is available at season, Readings is offering up to 40% Readings Carlton, Hawthorn, Malvern, and The Stella Prize 2020 shortlist off a range of opera and ballet DVDs. online until April 30, while stocks last. News The Stella Prize shortlist for 2020 has been Prices start at $14.95 and titles include announced, celebrating Australian women’s contribution to literature. The six books on the 2020 Stella Prize shortlist are: There The Women’s Prize for Fiction 2020 Was Still Love by Favel Parrett, Here Until longlist August by Josephine Rowe, The Weekend The longlist for the Women’s Prize for by Charlotte Wood, See What You Made Fiction has been announced. The sixteen Me Do by Jess Hill, Diving into Glass by books on the longlist are: Djinn Patrol Caro Llewellyn, and The Yield by Tara June on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara; Winch. The prize awards $50,000, and both Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser- fiction and nonfiction books are eligible for Akner; Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams; entry. The 2020 Stella Prize will be awarded Dominicana by Angie Cruz; Actress by Anne on Tuesday 14 April. Enright; Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo; Nightingale Point by Luan Goldie; A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes; How 20% off 20 popular cookbooks We Disappeared by Jing-Jing Lee; The Most Throughout the month of April, we are Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo; offering 20% off a range of essential The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel; cookbooks. There’s something for every Girl by Edna O’ Brien; Hamnet by Maggie home cook, with titles from Yotam Ottolenghi, O’ Farrell; Weather by Jenny Offill;The Phillippa Grogan, Hetty McKinnon, and many Dutch House by Ann Patchett; and Red more. This offer is available until 30 April on at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson. The in-stock, full priced items only, online (use the Women’s Prize awards £30,000 to a work of code 20COOKBOOKS) and in all Readings fiction written in English by a woman of any shops except SLV and Kids. READINGS MONTHLY EDITOR DVDS CURATOR PRICES AND AVAILABILITY Free, independent monthly newspaper Elke Power Lou Fulco Please note that all prices and release published by Readings Books, Music & Film [email protected] dates in Readings Monthly are correct EVENTS & PROGRAMMING at time of publication, however prices SUBSCRIBE EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS Chris Gordon and release dates may change without You can subscribe to Readings Monthly Judi Mitchell, Ellen Cregan & Kara notice. Special price offers apply only for and our e-news by visiting our website: Nicholson ADVERTISING the month in which they are featured in readings.com.au/sign-up Ellen Cregan Readings Monthly. PROOFREADERS [email protected] DELIVERY CHARGES FOR Judi Mitchell, Ellen Cregan & Marie Readings donates 10% of its profits each MAIL-ORDER PURCHASES GRAPHIC DESIGN Matteson year to the Readings Foundation: $7 flat rate for anywhere in Australia Cat Matteson readings.com.au/the-readings-foundation KIDS/YA CURATORS DELIVERY CHARGES FOR Angela Crocombe & Dani Solomon FRONT COVER ONLINE PURCHASES The April Readings Monthly cover features $7 flat rate for anywhere in Australia for MUSIC CURATOR a photograph of Readings’ managing orders under $150. Free delivery on orders Dave Clarke director Mark Rubbo and his son, Readings $150 and over. Carlton manager Joe Rubbo at the CLASSICAL MUSIC CURATOR entrance of Readings Carlton. The photo Phil Richards was taken by Readings’ digital marketing manager Lian Hingee. While all availability dates were correct at the time of going to press, due to the COVID-19 crisis the unexpected may happen along the supply chain. Please bear with us as we bring you books in these rapidly changing circumstances, and don’t hesitate to get in touch with our team on 03 9341 7729 or at [email protected] if you have any questions. Thank you. Cookbooks readings.com.au/collection/popular-cookbooks Promo code: 20COOKBOOKS 4 READINGS MONTHLY April 2020 COLUMNS been recommended by so many authors that we can’t wait to read it. Mark’s Editor’s Our Nonfiction Book of the Month is the Receive a incredibly prescient Phosphorescence by Julia Say Note Baird. Somehow, we’ve been given the books handpicked we need this month. We have an extract (page 5) from a new collection of essays edited by Helen Elliott, Grandmothers, and book a Mark’s Coronavirus Diary, While we all adapt to the you can find out more about it on page 12. Thursday 27 March 2020. grim reality of this historic Shannon Molloy’s Fourteen has been called month I email our accountant time, there is, as ever – this generation’s Holding the Man, and two asking how long can perhaps more than ever – books relevant to this time of confinement we trade without comfort, distraction, and are the gorgeous Design Lives Here, which directly to any income? What are our liabilities? resonance to be found in books. April has inspired our reviewer, and Marie Kondo’s What can we do for our staff? We have revealed itself to be one of those thrilling Joy at Work: The Life-Changing Magic of your door. a number of casuals with no leave months in which our reviewers have been Organising Your Working Life. Celebrated provisions, how can we help? Who needs impressed and delighted by a swathe of new Australian film critic Adrian Martin’s major help? What about our publishers and books notable for their originality, dazzling essays are collected in Mysteries of Cinema, authors? How will we sell their books? writing and surprising plots. As you’ll see and there are also new books from Nick Cave, How will we let you know about them? throughout these pages, a number of books Brenda Niall, Liz Allen, Malcolm Turnbull How can we get them to you? have already been flagged as strong and many more. My dear son Joe says these times will contenders for book of the year. For anyone staring blankly into the test our relationship, that we have to be Among them is our Fiction Book of the pantry, thinking of the months ahead, kind to each other.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Book Report Stormbreaker
    Book Report Stormbreaker Bradley Murphy 5th November, 2019 The title of my book is called Stormbreaker. It was written by Anthony Horowitz. The illustrator is Y uzuru Takasaki . The book is fiction. I thought it was a very good book and also interesting. 1 Setting It is first set in London. Then it takes place in Cornwall in the south west of England. Characters The main character is Alex Rider. He is a 14 year old boy. His uncle Ian Rider apparently died in a car crash. But Alex knew his uncle was very careful when it comes to driving. At Ian Rider’s funeral a man named Alan Blunt went up to Alex and said he was sorry that Ian Rider had passed away. When Mr. Blunt went into his limo one of his guard’s jackets fell and there was a gun in his inside pocket. Then the guard fixed his jacket and went into the limousine and drove off. The next day Alex went to school but he kept thinking about his uncle. Alex went to a scrap yard to look for his uncle’s car. When he found it he looked inside and saw blood on the driver seat and bullet shells. He was shocked to see what had happened. The next day Alex was invited to his uncle’s bank. 2 When he arrived Mr. Blunt was waiting for him. He brought Alex into his office. The office next door belonged to Ian Rider. When they went in to the office he gave Alex cola and talked about Ian Rider.
    [Show full text]
  • {TEXTBOOK} Anansi Boys Ebook Free Download
    ANANSI BOYS PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Neil Gaiman | 416 pages | 11 Jul 2011 | HarperCollins Publishers Inc | 9780060515195 | English | New York, NY, United States Anansi Boys (American Gods, #2) by Neil Gaiman Gaiman turned his attention to African mythology and the figure of Anansi the spider god. Having already made a scene-stealing appearance in the award-winning American Gods , the irresistible Mr Nancy makes a triumphant return in this witty romp of a novel — perfect for fans of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett. Now you merely have to do something just as beautiful and just as ground-breaking. Inside, fully illustrated, original black-and-white chapter headings tell their own folktale — all of which are especially fitting for a book about the power and vitality of stories. Spider was the cool one; he was the other one. Bereavement is a time of upheaval and for Fat Charlie Nancy the changes are practically seismic. Not only does he discover that his embarrassing old dad was actually Anansi the African trickster god, his life is about to be invaded and turned upside down by Spider, the magical twin brother he never knew he had. As well as helping to inspire the book, Lenny Henry provided advice and insight on Caribbean syntax and dialogue, helping to ensure that the voices of the characters sounded authentic. His work demonstrates exactly how wild and varied the field can be, from uprooting fairy tales in Stardust to exposing the fantastical underbelly of London in Neverwhere. Neil Gaiman is a critically acclaimed writer of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films.
    [Show full text]
  • Contrasting Cultural Landscapes and Spaces in Peter Weir's Film Picnic At
    Coolabah, No.11, 2013, ISSN 1988-5946, Observatori: Centre d’Estudis Australians, Australian Studies Centre, Universitat de Barcelona Contrasting cultural landscapes and spaces in Peter Weir’s film Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), based on Joan Lindsay’s 1967 novel with the same title 1 Jytte Holmqvist Copyright©2013 Jytte Holmqvist. This text may be archived and redistributed both in electronic form and in hard copy, provided that the author and journal are properly cited and no fee is charged. Abstract: The following essay explores the relationship between contrasting cultures and cultural spaces within a rural Australian, Victorian, context, with reference to the narrated cultural landscape in Joan Lindsay’s novel Picnic at Hanging Rock (1967) and in the film based on the novel, by Peter Weir (1975). In the analysis of the five first scenes of the film, the focus will be on the notion of scenic- and human- beauty that is at once arresting and foreboding, and the various contrasting and parallel spaces that characterise the structure of book and film. The article will draw from a number of additional secondary sources, including various cultural readings which offer alternative methodological approaches to the works analysed, and recorded 1970s interviews with the author and the filmmaker. *** This essay explores the relationship between contrasting cultural spaces within a rural Australian context, with reference to Joan Lindsay’s 1967 novel Picnic at Hanging Rock and in Peter Weir’s film based on the novel (1975). The original novel may or may not be based on the real disappearance of three young girls in the Macedon area in 1867.
    [Show full text]
  • Every Moment an Amazing Story MESSAGE from the CHAIRMAN, DR GRAEME L BLACKMAN OAM
    VICTORIA ISSUE 1 FEB/MAR/APR 2015 National Trust of Australia (Victoria) AUS:$7.00 9 772204 397002 > Every moment an amazing story MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN, DR GRAEME L BLACKMAN OAM Welcome to our fi rst issue of National Trust, heralding a new look for our fl agship membership publication which has grown to refl ect our vision for the Trust as a leader and innovator in the custodianship and interpretation of heritage places. As well as featuring stories from the Trust showcasing our fascinating properties, collections and programs, National Trust includes new contributors bringing you stories from the rich world of history and heritage in Victoria and beyond. In 2015 Australia begins a four-year commemoration of the Centenary of Anzac, during which the National Trust will off er a number of public programs and tell some of the incredible wartime stories from our properties. Our National Trust Heritage Festival, themed Confl ict and Compassion (see pages 6–9), will highlight some of these stories, with an exhibition at Como exploring the impact of World War I on the Armytage family (see page 11). One of my personal highlights of 2014 was participating in the fi rst commemorative planting for the Gallipoli Oaks project at the Royal Botanic Gardens by the Governor General Sir Peter Cosgrove in November (see p 21). From now until 2018, the Trust will be delivering Gallipoli Oak saplings with an accompanying education kit to over 500 schools across Victoria to provide a new generation with a living link to Gallipoli. I hope that you are able to join us at a National Trust Heritage Festival event this year.
    [Show full text]
  • 7-26-18 2019 Frederick Speaker Series Lineup
    Media Contact: Barbara Hiller Manager of Marketing, Weinberg Center for the Arts 301-600-2868 | [email protected] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2019 Frederick Speaker Series Lineup Announced FREDERICK, MD, July 26, 2018 — Entering its seventh year, the Frederick Speaker Series has developed a reputation for bringing world-class speakers to the Frederick community. The 2019 lineup includes; Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Ronan Farrow, actress and LGBT advocate, Laverne Cox, actor and literacy advocate, Levar Burton and international bestselling author, Neil Gaiman. All series events are held at the Weinberg Center for the Arts. Tickets for all four speakers will go on sale to Weinberg Center members on Thursday, August 9 at 10:00 AM and to the general public on Thursday, August 16 at 10:00 AM. Tickets may be purchased online at weinbergcenter.org, by calling the Weinberg Center Box Office at 301-600-2828, or in person at 20 W. Patrick Street in Frederick, Maryland. For more information about becoming a Weinberg Center member and gaining early access to tickets, please visit weinbergcenter.org/support#membership. A separately-ticketed meet-and-greet reception will take place immediately following each presentation. These exclusive events provide a chance for fans to meet the speakers, take pictures, and obtain autographs. All proceeds from the meet-and-greet receptions will benefit children’s programs at Frederick County Public Libraries. Ronan Farrow | Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 7:30 PM Born in 1987 to actress Mia Farrow and filmmaker Woody Allen, Ronan Farrow achieved early notoriety as a child prodigy, skipping grades and starting college at age 11.
    [Show full text]
  • Free Downloads Stormbreaker (Alex Rider)
    Free Downloads Stormbreaker (Alex Rider) Meet the orphan turned teen superspy who's saving the world one mission at a timeâ€â€from #1 New York Times bestselling author!  They said his uncle Ian died in a car accident. But Alex Rider knows that’s a lie, and the bullet holes in the windshield prove it. Yet he never suspected the truth: his uncle was really a spy for Britain’s top secret intelligence agency. And now Alex has been recruited to find his uncle’s killers . .Alex Rider's is debut mission is packed with bonus material - including an extra Alex Rider short story, a letter from Anthony Horowitz, and much more!From the author of Magpie Murders and Moriarty. “Slam-bang action, spying and high-tech gadgets . a non-stop thriller!â€Ââ€â€Kirkus Reviews Series: Alex Rider (Book 1) Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: Puffin Books (February 16, 2006) Language: English ISBN-10: 0142406112 ISBN-13: 978-0142406113 Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.6 x 7.8 inches Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars 616 customer reviews Best Sellers Rank: #15,465 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #33 in Books > Teens > Literature & Fiction > Boys & Men #42 in Books > Teens > Literature & Fiction > Action & Adventure > Mystery & Thriller #53 in Books > Teens > Mysteries & Thrillers > Mystery & Detective Readers will cheer for Alex Rider, the 14-year-old hero of British author Horowitz's spy thriller (the first in a projected series).
    [Show full text]
  • The Image of Contemporary Society in Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere
    Pobrane z czasopisma New Horizons in English Studies http://newhorizons.umcs.pl Data: 08/10/2021 04:42:57 New Horizons in English Studies 1/2016 LITERATURE • Julia Kula Maria Curie-SkłodowSka univerSity (uMCS) in LubLin [email protected] The Image of Contemporary Society in Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere Abstract. Neil Gaiman’s urban fantasy novel Neverwhere revolves around some problematic aspects prevalent in the contemporary world, such as an iniquitous discrepancy between social classes or a problematic attitude to history. The artistic universes created by Gaiman are instrumental in con- veying a complex condition of postmodern society. Although one of the represented worlds, London Above, is realistic and the other, London Below, is fantastic, both are suggestive of the contemporary social situation, citizens’ shared values and aspirations. Only when considered together can they reveal a comprehensive image of what the community accepts and what it rejects as no longer consistent with commonly held beliefs. UMCS The disparities in the representations of London Above and London Below refer to the division into the present and the past. The realistically portrayed metropolis is the embodiment of contemporary times. The fantastic London Below epitomises all that is ignored or rejected by London Above. The present study is going to discuss the main ideas encoded in the semiotic spaces created by Neil Gaiman, on the basis of postmodern theories. I am going to focus on how the characteristic features of postmodern fiction, such as the use of fantasy and the application of the ontological dominant, by highlighting the boundaries between London Above and London Below affect the general purport of the work.
    [Show full text]
  • Anansi Boys Neil Gaiman
    ANANSI BOYS NEIL GAIMAN ALSO BY NEIL GAIMAN MirrorMask: The Illustrated Film Script of the Motion Picture from The Jim Henson Company(with Dave McKean) The Alchemy of MirrorMask(by Dave McKean; commentary by Neil Gaiman) American Gods Stardust Smoke and Mirrors Neverwhere Good Omens(with Terry Pratchett) FOR YOUNG READERS (illustrated by Dave McKean) MirrorMask(with Dave McKean) The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish The Wolves in the Walls Coraline CREDITS Jacket design by Richard Aquan Jacket collage from Getty Images COPYRIGHT Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following copyrighted material: “Some of These Days” used by permission, Jerry Vogel Music Company, Inc. Spider drawing on page 334 © by Neil Gaiman. All rights reserved. This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. ANANSI BOYS. Copyright© 2005 by Neil Gaiman. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of PerfectBound™. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gaiman, Neil.
    [Show full text]
  • John ASHBERY, Poet (1927–2017)
    XXXXX SIZE: 170x170 Cuneiform tablet c. 2050 BCE Southern Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) RARES 099 C89 Cuneiform writing, developed by the ancient culture of Sumer, was one of the world’s first scripts. It was written on clay tablets using a wedged stick (cunea is Latin for ‘wedge’); the tablets were then sun-dried or fired. The earliest tablets (c. 3400 BCE) record economic transactions. This tablet records taxes paid in sheep and goats in the tenth month of the 46th year of Shulgi, second king of the Third Dynasty of Ur. BOOKS AND IDEAS ‘[T]he book is an extension of the eye …’ Marshall McLuha n The history of ideas is mirrored in the history of the book. Books have altered the course of history itself, through the dissemination of ideas that have changed how we think about the world and ourselves. In many cultures across different eras, books have played a highly symbolic and iconic role. There was a time when it was thought that the world’s knowledge could be collected between the covers of a book. The information explosion of recent times now makes it impossible to contain the world’s knowledge within one library, let alone in one book, yet books continue to be a powerful means of informing and inspiring new generations. XXXXX SIZE: 170x170 Leaf from an antiphonal showing the Office for Pope Gregory the Great England (?), c. 1400 Gift of Meredith Sherlock RAREP 782.324 C2862O CASE: XX SIZE: 150x 150 Claudius PTOLEMY (c. 100–170 CE) Ptolomaeus Almagestus (Ptolemy’s Greatest Work) Translated from Arabic into Latin by Gerardus Cremonensis Northern Italy, 1200–25 RARES 091 P95A Greek-born scholar Claudius Ptolemy lived in Roman-ruled Egypt, contributing significantly in the fields of philosophy, astronomy, mathematics and geography.
    [Show full text]
  • European Influences in the Fine Arts: Melbourne 1940-1960
    INTERSECTING CULTURES European Influences in the Fine Arts: Melbourne 1940-1960 Sheridan Palmer Bull Submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements of the degree ofDoctor ofPhilosophy December 2004 School of Art History, Cinema, Classics and Archaeology and The Australian Centre The University ofMelbourne Produced on acid-free paper. Abstract The development of modern European scholarship and art, more marked.in Austria and Germany, had produced by the early part of the twentieth century challenging innovations in art and the principles of art historical scholarship. Art history, in its quest to explicate the connections between art and mind, time and place, became a discipline that combined or connected various fields of enquiry to other historical moments. Hitler's accession to power in 1933 resulted in a major diaspora of Europeans, mostly German Jews, and one of the most critical dispersions of intellectuals ever recorded. Their relocation to many western countries, including Australia, resulted in major intellectual and cultural developments within those societies. By investigating selected case studies, this research illuminates the important contributions made by these individuals to the academic and cultural studies in Melbourne. Dr Ursula Hoff, a German art scholar, exiled from Hamburg, arrived in Melbourne via London in December 1939. After a brief period as a secretary at the Women's College at the University of Melbourne, she became the first qualified art historian to work within an Australian state gallery as well as one of the foundation lecturers at the School of Fine Arts at the University of Melbourne. While her legacy at the National Gallery of Victoria rests mostly on an internationally recognised Department of Prints and Drawings, her concern and dedication extended to the Gallery as a whole.
    [Show full text]
  • Pdf Book Report on Stormbreaker by Kellyann
    Book Report Stormbreaker Kellyann Walsh 5/11/19 Introduction 1. Stormbreaker 2. Anthony Horowitz 3. The illustrators are two sisters called Yuzuru and Kanako. 4. It is fiction. 5. I chose this book because the cover looked good and it was in our book list in Kindle. 1 The Setting The story starts with the main character Alex Rider, a 14 year old boy who lives in Chelsea in England. Alex travelled to Sayle Enterprises in Port Tallon, Cornwall, England to spy on a millionaire and computer manufacturer Herod Sayle. Sayle is making a computer called the Stormbreaker. MI6 think it's very suspicious so they send Alex to investigate. Alex spent a week in Sayle Enterprises spying. He went to a nearby village called Port Tallon. Then he went to a library to find out more about his uncle who used to work as a security guard there and was also an MI6 spy. At the end of the story we move back to London where the Prime Minister would press the button to turn on all the stormbreakers for every school in England. Can he do it? 2 The Characters One of the main characters is Alex Rider. He is a 14 year old boy living in England. His mother and father died when he was very little so he was raised by his uncle Ian Rider and his housekeeper Jack Alex’s uncle, Ian Rider, was a spy for MI6 and got shot at the start of the book by rich and deadly man called Yassen Gotgoravinch who works for a nasty group of people.
    [Show full text]
  • If You Love Anthony Horowitz, Try…
    SPONSORED BY If you love Anthony Horowitz, try… ALEX RIDER: STORMBREAKER ARTEMIS FOWL Anthony Horowitz WALKER Eoin Colfer PUFFIN Billionaire Herold Sayle At just twelve years old, Artemis is donating a space-age Fowl is already a criminal Stormbreaker computer to every mastermind, plotting to restore school in the country. But his gift his family’s fortune with a spot of hides a sinister surprise. Can teen corruption and kidnapping. Let spy Alex Rider crack its evil code? the misadventure begin... SHERLOCK HOLMES: PERCY JACKSON AND THE HOUND OF THE THE LIGHTNING THIEF BASKERVILLES Rick Riordan PUFFIN Arthur Conan Doyle OUP They call Percy ‘troubled’. Does What is the phantom hound that six schools in six years count as haunts the Baskerville family, ‘troubled’? What about the fact with blazing eyes and dripping that the Greek gods are alive— jaws? This spooky detective story and he’s topping their hit-list? is a must-read classic. YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES: EMIL AND THE DETECTIVES DEATH CLOUD Erich Kästner RANDOM HOUSE Andrew Lane MACMILLAN Emil doesn’t like the look of the The genius of Baker Street. The shifty man in the bowler hat who greatest sleuth in fiction. Before is sharing his train carriage. So he became immortal, who was when the man steals his money, the young Sherlock Holmes? A he sets off on a hair-raising chase brilliant teenager—and a sinister to catch the dirty rotten thief! villain of malign intent... DIRK GENTLY’S HOLISTIC SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT DETECTIVE AGENCY Derek Landy HARPER COLLINS Douglas Adams PAN MACMILLAN When all hell breaks loose, can the What do a dead cat, a computer wisecracking skeleton of a dead whiz-kid, an Electric Monk, magician save Stephanie’s skin? quantum mechanics, a Romantic poet and pizza have in common? Not much—until wacky detective Dirk Gently comes along! HOW TO TRAIN TIME RIDERS YOUR DRAGON Alex Scarrow PUFFIN Cressida Cowell HODDER Liam should have died at sea in Hiccup Horrendous Haddock 1912.
    [Show full text]