ReviewFantasy
A Face Like Glass by Frances Hardinge (book review)
When a little girl is found in a cheese vat by the master cheesemaker, Grandible, it is his instinct to pull her out.…
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May 2017
ReviewBooks
Doctor Who: Plague City by Jonathan Morris (book review)
Welcome to Plague City, where many people won’t survive the night. Thomas and Isobel are nursing their daughter Catherine when the night doctor…
ReviewBooks
Doctor Who: The Shining Man by Cavan Scott (book review).
Not a stranger to stranger things, Cavan Scott presents us with ‘The Shining Man’, a novel featuring the 12th Doctor and new companion,…
ReviewScifi
The Librarians And The Mother Goose Chase by Greg Cox (book review).
I retain an affection for the TV series ‘The Librarians’ and, although it seems they have an infinitesimally small budget on screen, they…
April 2017
ReviewHorror
Chalk by Paul Cornell (book review)
In a forgotten world, a boy seeks to live a normal life. The forgotten world is Britain in the 1970s and the boy…
ReviewScifi
All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai (book review)
If only you could travel in time and make everything right. OK, stop shouting, we all know this to be a bad idea.…
ReviewFantasy
The House Of Binding Thorns by Aliette de Bodard (book review)
A world of angels and demons exists in a war-torn Paris around the turn of the twentieth century. Those who must, seek to…
ReviewBooks
Star Trek Cats by Jenny Parks (book review)
There are times when you wonder where your life is going, times of anxiety and stress and for this I recommend ‘Star Trek…
ReviewFantasy
The Plague Charmer by Karen Maitland (book review)
‘The Plague Charmer’, although ostensibly a history mystery,’ actually slips quite nicely into the fantasy genre. A novel set in mediaeval times cannot…
March 2017
ReviewFantasy
All Darling Children by Katrina Monroe (book review).
Imagine if Peter Pan were real. Imagine ‘All Darling Children’ had been abducted by a boy who refuse to grow up. Imagine a…
ReviewBooks
Doctor Who And The Zarbi by Bill Strutton (book review).
‘Doctor Who And The Zarbi’ is not a story I am familiar with and I feel sure if I’d seen this as a…
ReviewBooks
Doctor Who And The Daleks by David Whitaker (book review)
When the Doctor meets Ian and Barbara for this first time, he decides the sensible thing to do is take them with him…