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Print: $23.27 Download: $15.05 Anne Billson has been reviewing films for more than a quarter of a century.
Her work has appeared in dozens of publications, many of which you have never heard of and several of which have gone bust (which she is persuaded had nothing to do with her). But she has been, at one time or another, the official film critic for Today, The Sunday Correspondent, New Statesman & Society, Tatler and The Sunday Telegraph.
This is a selection of her published reviews.
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"She's on the ball, and funny with it... You are getting a series of joyously executed reviews, by a clear-eyed yet passionate commentator, of films that, perhaps surprisingly, have lingered longer in the mind than you might have thought..." (Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian)...................
"Often venomous, frequently hilarious, always insightful" (Empire)
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Print: $20.53 Download: $16.42 "This is how it began, the tale of a decadent dynasty, the Evil Orchestra and some of the strangest peccadillos known to man..."
So begins The Secret World of the Sex Witches, the legendary erotic novella by "Musidora", rumoured to have been the pen-name of a well-respected figure on the post-war Parisian literary scene. Anne Billson's spanking new translation, first published in The Erotic Review, brings out all the naughtiness, sensuality and surreal humour of an intellectual Frenchwoman's extravagant vision of eccentric English sexuality in a deliciously titillating text that fully deserves to be ranked alongside the writings of Ronald Firbank, Anaïs Nin, Boris Vian and Pauline Réage.
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The ExThe Ex (book)
Print: $27.38 Download: $13.68 From the author of cult vampire novel SUCKERS and Notting Hill ghost story STIFF LIPS comes another ghost story, narrated with self-lacerating humour by a private eye who has a lot to learn about himself and the world of the supernatural. Alice Marchmont is classy, beautiful and about to get married to the most eligible bachelor in town. But she needs John Croydon's help. Because Alice has a stalker. It's her fiancé's ex-wife, who is threatening to disrupt the wedding... or worse. Croydon has just one week to persuade this inconvenient ex to back down and leave the happy couple alone. Problem is, she's going to take some persuading. Because she's dead. Has been dead for quite some time. In the course of an investigation that will lead him from London to Norfolk and, ultimately, to Venice, John Croydon will be forced to dig into his own troubled past for answers. He will discover that appearances can be deceptive, women are not to be trusted... and that some ghosts are worse than others.
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