In The Blink of An Eye: A BBC Between the Covers Book Club Pick

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If you like an original story with great characters and an ending you literally won't expect, this could be the book for you. Lock is sometimes blunt and careless in language as he doesn’t understand emotion, however the constant stimuli of working in the field allows him to reset his boundaries on occasion.

I’m not sure how I’d feel about working along side AI, but it certainly seems to take some of the strain out of the legwork, an example being Lock’s ability to review hours of CCTV footage in just seconds. Daring and original, heartbreakin g and heart-stoppi ng, this study of what it means to be human is destined to not only be a big success, but a classic crime novel of our times. The more we get to learn about them, the easier they are to like as all have incidents in their past who inform who they are today, and each backstory really adds to the emotion of the book itself.S.’s finest decades of cinema, the 1970s, Walter Murch is part psychologist philosopher and part editor in this short treatise on film editing. Purchase from Booktopia* *As an affiliate of Booktopia I may earn a small commission on your purchase at no additional cost to you. There’s also a lot of humour, the interactions between Kat and Lock are often very funny and well observed, providing depth and insight into human behaviour. She is tasked with running a new pilot programme which pairs AI’s with humans to solve cold cases of missing people. I'm really glad this is not a standalone book and I am looking forward to reading the second book a bit later this year.

This gives the editor freedom as they are don’t feel that certain shots must go into due to the difficulty or cost of the image, merely what is creatively useful and interesting. The rest is just Murch going on and on with 'clever' analogies to explain what editing is to an audience that maybe never before thought about the fact that movies are edited at all.

Murch has taken years of experience in the film industry and poured them into this work of theory and art. Professor Okonedo also adds to the dynamic, providing additional insight into police procedure and how they work with other organisations. Though it’s hard to imagine now, when movies were first made at the beginning of the 20th century, cuts had not yet been ‘discovered’ as a part of the filmmaker’s toolkit. It has really short chapters with a lot of repetition, very reminiscent of your average self help lecture.

This is a real person trying to get through the day and use her emotional intelligence in the right way. It respects the three-dimensional continuity of the actual space (where people are in the room and in relation to one another). It has universal appeal and seduced our celebrity panel members who wouldn’t normally choose a crime book.

Kat has a major issue with anything technical and isn’t particularly happy about having to team up with AI Lock. Pairing with Lock, an AI device that can analyse data in seconds, Kat is given some cold missing person cases to solve. Much of the book references experiences Murch had editing The English Patient, Apocalypse Now, and The Godfather.