I awaited this book with great anticipation. I love a good thriller, in fact it was Dan Brown that brought me back to reading novels having lost myself in biographies for a number of years.

Let’s face it you know what you are going to get with a Dan Brown book, but is that a bad thing? Robert Langdon, our hero of his previous books wakes up in a hospital bed, he has no memory of how he got there but keeps repeating the same phrases and having some very nasty nightmares… I will go no further as I don’t wish to spoil the ride for anyone, but there are some serious twists and turns in the book. There is also a very important message that Dan is conveying to us, this time about population growth and how we are all doomed…
I enjoyed it, I didn’t enjoy it maybe as much as some of his previous books, but I lost myself in it for a few days and also like most of the other people reading it no doubt would very much like to go to Florence…. but then again I did before I read it
Go on take a bite from this elicit fruit and give it a go… you know you want to!

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We got to the BFI with plenty of time to spare and had a wander around taking in all the wonderful posters they have there; perused the shop, spotted the odd celeb, then took our seats in the auditorium.

Terence arrived on stage after a brief introduction from Geoff Andrew who was the interviewer for the evening. He looked resplendent as always in a very dapper blue suit with those striking eyes welcoming us all with a wonderful smile.

The evenings talk was broken up with clips from Terence’s films. To see just a few of them up on the big screen whilst watching the actor himself also watching them, was a huge honour.  I wondered what he thought or felt looking at his younger self up on the big screen.  Also it showed once again what a brilliantly versatile actor he is, no one role was the same, be it Billy Budd the blond angelic youth to General Zod via The Collector.

His memory of the events is as keen as if it were yesterday and he did wonderful impersonations of Brando, Fellini and William Wilder to name but a few. You could literally envisage his reminiscences as they had occurred and savor the fact that he was sharing them with you with such glee.

He told us how he had received some wonderful advice from none other than Anthony Newly. The night before the final scene in Billy Budd he was wondering how to portrait serine wonder, Mr Newley had said, “if all else fails do nothing” and that was what he did.

I just love the way his mind works, when he discussed his portrayal of Bernadette in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert he said he was wondering how it would be to wake up in the wrong body, something to which most of us have no perception. He also said what a joy it was to work with Guy Pearce and Hugo Weaving. The clip from this received the best laugh of the night. Terence said that actually if you watch the film you will see that it is a perfect film and that lots of people miss that due to the subject matter.

At the end of the evening there were questions from the audience, which Terence answered in great detail. The evening has been recorded so hopefully will be available at some point for us to enjoy again.

I could have sat there and listened to him talk for all eternity. Thanks to the BFI for a wonderful evening and Terence for being so brilliant!

If you haven’t seen Terence’s films then I highly recommend you do and also his books are rather wonderful too.

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My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Danielle Trussoni’s follow up to her hugely successful first novel Angelology finds us ten years after the close of the last book, an awful lot seems to have happened in those ten years, our hero Verlaine is now an experienced Angelogist himself and the world is filled with Nephilim. Verlaine see’s Evangeline again after all those years in Paris, his feelings for her once again aroused, he chases her and Eno a terrifying demonic angel who takes great pleasure in torturing humans in the most diabolical way.

I won’t say anymore as don’t want to spoil the ride for those who are yet to read it. The focus of the book is a real twist from the first one, the world that Danielle creates is so believable one almost begins to believe all this is going on about us and we are unaware of it. I hate to compare it to Dan Brown, but it does have his style of jet settings across the globe to follow the action, it’s a great romp, not as long a book as the first one, but left us nicely primed for the third one!

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