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Chris Hewitt is a film critic, journalist and broadcaster. Word jockey @empiremagazine, host of the Empire Podcast, massive Q&A-hole. Two-time winner of the internet. Also: @ChrisHewittLFC.

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Book Cover for: Cell, Stephen King

Cell

Stephen King
Chris HewittChris Hewitt

Imagine if the anti-vaxxer conspiracy bells had been right about that signal, and it was some kind of Stephen King's Cell thing that turns the vaccinated into drooling zombies. I'd absolutely take that over living in a world where Right Said Fred were part of any new government.

Paperback, Mass Market, 2022

$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story, Leslie Jamison

Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story

Leslie Jamison
Chris HewittChris Hewitt

So compassionate and insightful…interests you in topics you may not care about and shows you new ways to view topics you care about… Jamison is hilarious, with a dry and self-deprecating wit in which the jokes are so graceful and surprising that you may need to read them twice

Hardcover, 2024

$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead, Neil Gaiman

Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead

Neil Gaiman
Chris HewittChris Hewitt

Imagine if the anti-vaxxer conspiracy bells had been right about that signal, and it was some kind of Stephen King's Cell thing that turns the vaccinated into drooling zombies. I'd absolutely take that over living in a world where Right Said Fred were part of any new government.

Paperback, 2009

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Sorry to Bother You: Original Screenplay, Boots Riley

Sorry to Bother You: Original Screenplay

Boots Riley
Chris HewittChris Hewitt

@Krysmadrid1 First and only time that’s happened to me with a computer crash. Although I did also manage to completely lose a pod interview I did with Boots Riley for Sorry To Bother You. Just vanished into thin air. Gutted.

Paperback, 2018

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Funny Story, Emily Henry

Funny Story

Emily Henry
Chris HewittChris Hewitt

it's a breeze to read, with nuanced characterizations, brisk setpieces, and Henry's deft wit… Like a lot of romcoms, "Funny Story" insists that romance is rarely tidy or packaged the way we expect it to be (that's where the "com" comes in, right?).

Hardcover, 2024

$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life, Anna Funder

Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

Anna Funder
Chris HewittChris Hewitt

Almost impossible to characterize Anna Funder's book about Eileen Orwell... It can't have been easy to write a quasi-biography of someone who was Wited Out of the historical record, but Funder has the receipts, and she shows them.

Hardcover, 2023

$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Close to Death, Anthony Horowitz

Close to Death

Anthony Horowitz
Chris HewittChris Hewitt

Horowitz is stronger on plot than characterization…but that turns out to be enough in "Close to Death." If "witty," "page-turning" and "clever" sound like something you'd like to see in a mystery, it might be the one for you.

Hardcover, 2024

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: A Fish Called Wanda: The Screenplay, John Cleese

A Fish Called Wanda: The Screenplay

John Cleese
Chris HewittChris Hewitt

@rufusjones1 Reminds me of one of my favourite gags in A Fish Called Wanda, where Tom Georgeson is talking to John Cleese in his prison cell and says, ‘tell those pigs to fuck off’. Cleese calmly turns around and says, ‘fuck off, pigs.’

Paperback, 2000

$14.99$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Reacher: Killing Floor (Movie Tie-In), Lee Child

Reacher: Killing Floor (Movie Tie-In)

Lee Child
Chris HewittChris Hewitt

I love it. We have two great Reacher adaptations — this movie, and the Amazon show, which isn’t perfect but has Alan Ritchson, who basically tore his way into the real world from a pile of paper sitting on Lee Child’s desk. I’ll take that. https://t.co/91ojU6WoXK

Paperback, Mass Market, 2021

$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Grief Is for People, Sloane Crosley

Grief Is for People

Sloane Crosley
Chris HewittChris Hewitt

Hers is not a self-help book, by any means, but Crosley's three-steps-forward/two-steps-back journey to a kind of peace could be useful for others who, like her, feel broken and confused.

Hardcover, 2024

$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book