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Fungi From Yuggoth — An Annotated Edition by H P Lovecraft and illustrations by Jason C. Eckhardt (book review).
While Lovecraft isn’t today well-known as a poet, in his time he wrote a great deal of verse in a variety of styles.…
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March 2022
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Relentless: A Drizzi Novel book 3 of 3 by R.A. Salvatore (book review).
Effectively wrapping up the saga that started with ‘The Crystal Shard’ more than thirty years ago, ‘Relentless’ may be marketed as ‘a Drizzt…
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The Way Spring Arrives And Other Stories edited and collected by Yu Chen and Regina Kanyu Wang (book review).
‘The Way Spring Arrives And Other Stories’ is a brand-new collection of stories translated from Chinese, with essays and a couple of stories…
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Gods and Dragons (Wake The Dragon #3) by Kevin J. Anderson (book review).
‘Gods And Dragons’ is book three in the ‘Wake The Dragon’ series, so you need to read ‘Spine Of The Dragon’ and ‘Vengewar’…
February 2022
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The Angry Dead by Rosemary Pardoe (book review).
There are times when you come across a gem of a book and this is the best way to describe the stories within…
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Where The Drowned Girls Go (Wayward Children book 7) by Seanan McGuire (book review)
The award winning novella, ‘Every Heart A Doorway’, introduced the concept of doorways through which children can pass to a different world. Often,…
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The Unfamiliar Garden (The Comet Cycle book 2) by Benjamin Percy (book review).
The idea that comets bring doom is hardly new. An image of Halley’s Comet is famously embroidered into the Bayeux Tapestry, implying heavenly…
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Come Tumbling Down (The Wayward Children book 5) by Seanan McGuire (book review).
Most readers will be familiar with Lewis Carroll’s 1885 novel relating ‘The Adventures Of Alice In Wonderland’, where a child falls down a…
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The Dying Squad by Adam Simcox (book review).
‘The Dying Squad’ is Adam Simcox’s debut novel. It’s far from being his first work of creative fiction though. Simcox is a British…
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Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children #5) by Seanan McGuire (book review).
‘Come Tumbling Down’ is book 5 in the ‘Wayward Children’ series by Seanan McGuire. Each of the books in the series so far…
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The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik (book review).
Imagine a school where, at fourteen, you disappear inside and don’t come out for four years. That’s four years when you don’t see…
January 2022
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A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik (book review).
There have always been school stories. Most of us have read them at some point. Post-war there was ‘Billy Bunter of Greyfriars’ and…