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Citadel – an international organisation without national affiliation, but designed to keep the world safe – has two of its best operatives on a high-end train running through the Italian mountains. They are there with a remit to stop the delivery of illicit security material. However it turns out...
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Though many column-inches have been devoted to how much Amazon invested in the high-pedigree luxurious drama The Rings of Power, it’s perhaps another of their titles, Carnival Row, that deserves the major plaudits, yet often feels overlooked. Taking the fantastical elements of J R Tolkien or C S Lewis ...
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Lucy Chambers does not have an easy life. Her senior role in social services and child protection provides all the expected daily stresses of the position and at home she has a troubled child of her own, Isaac, who seems to have little emotional reaction to anything. She has...
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The year is 2032. Flynne Fisher (Chloe Grace Moretz) spends her days working at a small 3D-printing shop in the Blue Ridge Mountains and her nights plugging herself into her brother’s VR-reality console where she’s become quite adept at raking in record-breaking high scores and wins. She has the...
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The Stranger may have departed the Harfoot caravan but is still being pursued by a trio of clearly powerful beings. As Nori and the trio separately catch up with the imposing figure, there’s a moment of revelation for all concerned, but the confrontation will have its casualties. Has Sauron...
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The Southlands have been devastated by the volcanic eruption and as the survivors stagger through the ruins, it’s clear that the dark is rising once again throughout Middle-earth. But as the effects of the disaster reverberate through the various communities, near and far, and alliances tested… there are new...
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It would seem that the people of Ostirith face impossible odds as Adar and the Orcs arrive to take the Keep and slaughter any who stand in their way. But each side has prepared strategies against the other, measure and counter-measure that will likely cost both sides a moment...
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The Queen Regent may have agreed to help Galadriel and send Númenor’s troops to help defend the Southlands, but there are those who are still opposed to that assistance. Pharazôn is stirring up subtle discontent, Halbrand still seems reluctant to head back to his home as its long-lost king...
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As Queen Regent Míriel has visions of the end of Númenor and reveals to Galadriel that her arrival marks the beginning of a prophesy playing out, it seems that the forces across Middle-earth are still divided between their own interests and the whispers of the dark rising once again...