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Great Adaptations: Strangers on a Train on screen

This month over at Five Books For I've been looking at crime novels - not detective fiction exactly, and not quite thrillers either, but stories centred on the crime itself and, often, the psychology behind it. Strangers on a Train by Patricia...

Travelling across Europe with my best friends: Interrailing at 18

Interrailing across Europe has been a long-established rite of passage for British students in ‘the A-level summer’ before university. Although no longer as cheap and carefree of an experience as my parents described (‘£50 and a backpack’),...

5 reasons you can’t miss the final season of Like Water for Chocolate

The 2024 premiere of the adaptation of  Como Agua para Chocolate (Like Water for Chocolate)  marked a turning point for productions in the Latin American region, establishing itself as the the area's most-watched title globally on the Max...

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