An eerily smoldering performance by Charlotte Gainsbourg as a sexually awakening teenager should be enough to set The Cement Garden apart from the rest. Instead, it's the story that distinguishes this ...

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Guide to Concrete (Creative Publishing International, 2008) takes readers through some of the most popular home concrete and masonry projects. Endorsed by Quikrete, this book includes tips and expert ...

Cement is not normally associated with gardening. But it’s an incredibly versatile medium that needs only the most basic of tools to turn out 101 different items, from personalised stepping-stones to ...

There’s a story tone occasionally sought by movie makers, and even less occasionally achieved. It’s not quite horror or even fear, which, being glandular in origin, are relatively easy to produce.

Ian McEwan‘s first novel is a claustrophobic, haunting affair, spinning a disturbing tale that lingers long in the mind. Adapters Jimmy Osborne and David Aula have attempted to reproduce this ...

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Ian McEwan’s first novel, The Cement Garden (1978) is a deeply creepy book that earned him the sobriquet Ian McAbre. An American critic also wittily described the 138-page story as being “nasty, ...

A THRIFTY woman managed to transform her concrete garden into a Meditereaan-inspired oasis for less than £50. Victoria Measures, 29, decided to give her yard a makeover after being furloughed, as she ...

I love Ian McEwan. I love, love, LOVE him. And after recently reading a lifetime's worth of vampire porn I decided I should probably read something written by a grown-up for a change. So, this weekend ...

This film charts the increasingly close relationship between teenage siblings Jack (Andrew Robertson) and Julie (the superb Charlotte Gainsbourg, Birkin's niece) over the course of a long hot summer ...

Ian McEwan’s The Cement Garden – a disturbing novel about orphaned children left to fend for themselves – is given a nimble if strangely ponderous makeover in David Aula and Jimmy Osborne’s new ...