Anne Billson
Bio
Anne is a writer and photographer. Her books include three horror novels, Suckers, Stiff Lips and The Ex, and monographs on The Thing and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She was the film critic of the Sunday Telegraph from 1993 to 2001 and now writes a regular column on cinema for the Guardian. She lives in Paris.
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Under the Fig Trees review - a sensual day in the Tunisian s...
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Hypnotic review - a riotously enjoyable thriller
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