Pulling the Wings Off Angels – KJ Parker

"'First,' said Florio the gangster, 'I'm going to cut off your nose and make you eat it.'" Upon racking up quite the impressive gambling debt, our protagonist - a clerical student who doesn't believe in God - is offered a deal: the debt will be wiped, but in return he's to hand over the angel …

The Name of the Rose (season 1)

Back in the late 1980s, a movie adaptation was made of Umberto Eco's historical mystery, The Name of the Rose. Starring Sean Connery and a very young Christian Slater in one of his first roles, I rather loved it and enjoyed the book on the back of it. So when I saw there was a new adaptation …

Lucifer (season 1)

Once upon a time a little graphic novel series, Sandman, told of the Lord of Hell, Lucifer Morningstar, growing bored of the job and deciding to decamp to Los Angeles - where else?! He opens up a nightclub and sets about living life to the full, encouraging the mortals around him to do the same. Neil …

A Gathering of Ravens – Scott Oden

"The storm howled out of the west like the terrible voice of God, shouting down the heretics who doubted the coming Apocalypse." The last kin of (a version of) Grendel - the monster in Beowulf - is on a mission to wreak vengeance on his brother's killer. Along the way, he toys with a Norse …

Ben-Hur (2016)

Judah Ben-Hur is a pacifist prince in a Jerusalem being overtaken by Rome, until his adopted Roman brother, Messala, returns from the wars and falsely accuses Judah of treason. After 5 years as a galley slave, a shipwreck and chance meeting with a chariot racing team in town for the opening of the new 'circus' …