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This novel by Kate Morton – a story of tragedy, secrets, and discovery, has been described as a cross between The Secret Carden & Rebecca, and is being offered for £2.99 when you buy this weeks Times newspaper.

It starts on the eve of the First World War, when a little girl named Nell is found wondering alone on a ship bound for Australia. Fast forward to the night of her twenty-first birthday, and Nell learns a family secret that will change her life forever. Decades later, she embarks upon a search for the truth that leads her to the windswept Cornish coast and the strange and beautiful Blackhurst Manor, once owned by the aristocratic Mountrachet family.

On Nell’s death, her granddaughter, Cassandra, comes into an unexpected inheritance. Cliff Cottage and its forgotten garden, which are notorious amongst the Cornish locals for the secrets they hold – secrets about the doomed Mountrachet family and their ward Eliza Makepeace, a writer of dark Victorian fairytales. It is here that Cassandra must uncover the
truth about the family, and solve a century-old mystery…

If like me you are a huge Wallace and Gromit fan, you will be pleased to know that there is a brand new Adventure entitled “A Matter Of Loaf And Death” to be shown at Christmas

The half-hour special has got a distinctly Hitchcockian air as the pair fight to save their new bakery Top Bun, where Business was flourishing, until a sinister killer started targeting all the bakers in town, and Wallace fears that Top Bun may be next.

Matters are complicated when he falls in love with Piella Bakewell (voiced by Sally Lindsay) leaving the long-suffering Gromit to run the shop, when he would rather be getting to know Piella’s cute poodle Fluffles. However Fluffles may not be all that she seems…

Over the weekend I went to see The latest Bond Movie “Quantum of Solace”. It has a lot of explosions & action which makes it very exciting in places. Like Casino Royale it is more gritty & realistic than some recent Bond movies (Which in my opinion is no bad thing).

It picks up shortly after Casino Royale finishes and sees Daniel Craig trying to discover who the baddies behind Le Chifre’s dodgy dealings really are. His investigations lead him to The West Indies where he discovers the Corrupt Bolivian General Medrano (Joaquin Cosio) working with a chap named Greene (Matthieu Amalric), who is buying up vast quantities of land under the pretext of setting up vast Wildlife parks, but is in fact trying to get to the valuable mineral, oil and Water reserves underneath…

Helping/hindering him along the way are Agent Strawberry Fields (Gemma Arterton) and a former lover of Greene’s named Camille (Olga Kurylenko).

The Theme tune by Jack While & Alicia Keys “Another Way to Die” is also growing on me. Although I still don’t think it is as good as Chris Cornell’s “You Know My Name”

Interestingly The film takes it’s name from the third short story featured In Ian Fleming’s novel For Your Eyes Only and is actually an anecdote told to James Bond at a Dinner Party and doesn’t even feature Bond at all.

Here is the TRAILER

While I was surfing the net the other day I chanced upon this Arcade of fun Computer Games & I have been having great fun ever since.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/fun/article1339415.ece