Blood Of Tyrants (Temeraire book 8) by Naomi Novik (book review).
To combine fantasy and historical fiction is not the easiest of tasks, not simply because you have to satisfy the
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The Silver Tide (Copper Cat/The Copper Promise Trilogy book 3) by Jen Williams (book review).
‘The Silver Tide’ by Jen Williams is the third and final book in the Copper Cat/The Copper Promise Trilogy. This
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The Moonshawl by Storm Constantine (book review).
When readers take characters or the world they inhabit to their hearts, an author needs to make decisions about the
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The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell (book review).
‘The Bone Clocks’ by David Mitchell is a strange, captivating book. At turns, enthralling and frustrating in equal measure. It
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J.G. Ballard is one of those authors whose works inevitably fall into the hard-to-translate from the printed page – given
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Pride And Prejudice And Zombies (a film review by Frank Ochieng)
One thing is for certain: no one can accuse director Burr Steers’s off-kilter version of novelist Jane Austen’s lyrical literary
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Illustrators # 7 (magazine review).
Illustrators # 7 is dominated by fantasy art this time and across a wide-spectrum from the serious to the downright
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The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2015, Volume 128 # 722 (magazine review).
The closing issue of ‘The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction’ for 2015 includes one novella, two novelettes, eight short
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Twelve Kings: The Song of the Shattered Sands (Song of Shattered Sands 1) by Bradley Beaulieu (book review).
‘Twelve Kings’ is the first in as yet unnumbered series of books but given that there are 12 kings in
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The Shifting Price Of Prey: Spellcrackers.com book 4 by Suzanne McLeod (book review).
Authors these days have a dilemma. With the current financial climate publishers, especially their financial department, are always concerned about
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