ReviewFantasy
Fantasy Art: Warriors & Heroes by Russ Thorne (book review).
Now this is why it pays to look at different publishers and the books they put out and check their back catalogues. If…
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February 2021
ReviewBooks
How To Speak Astromech With BB-8: A Communication Manual I.M Rollin and illustrated JAKe (book review).
‘How To Speak Astromech With BB-8: A Communications Manual’ is a follow-up to the ‘How To Speak’ books on R2D2 and Wookies, previously…
ReviewFantasy
Piranesi by Susannah Clarke (book review).
Life is an endless labyrinth of possibilities but what if you somehow get stuck in the netherworld and you don’t even know you…
ReviewHorror
The Children God Forgot by Graham Masterton (book review).
Graham Masterton is an experienced master of British horror writing, having published his first novel, ‘The Manitou’, in 1976 with more following on…
ReviewBooks
Modern Masters Volume 13: Jerry Ordway by Eric Nolen-Weathington (book review).
I think the first thing that struck me was artist Jerry Ordway and me had something in common, being born in the same…
ReviewHorror
Collected Essays Volume 3: Science by H.P. Lovecraft edited by S.T. Joshi (book review).
One of the things that isn’t well known about H.P. Lovecraft is that the first thing he ever had published wasn’t a story…
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William Blake: Masterpieces Of Art by Michael Kerrigan (book review).
Reading about artist, satirist and writer William Blake (1757-1827) and you certainly come away thinking he was a renaissance man. He was a…
ReviewFantasy
The Left-Handed Booksellers Of London by Garth Nix (book review).
‘The Left-Handed Booksellers Of London’ is a standalone fantasy novel by Garth Nix. Susan Arkshaw has just moved to London to start university…
January 2021
ReviewBooks
Pictorial Composition: An Introduction by Henry Rankin Poore (book review).
In his book, ‘Imaginative Realism’, James Gurney spent a lot of time on the mechanics of composition and how to engage the viewer.…
ReviewFantasy
The Magical History Of Mermaids by Russ Thorne (book review).
I’m fascinated by how mythologies along similar themes exist across the world. Oddly, as Russ Thorne points out in this book, ‘The Magical…
ReviewBooks
Imaginative Realism by James Gurney (book review).
No, that’s not James Gurney on the cover but as you catch up with the painting inside his 2009 book, ‘Imaginative Realism’, he…
ReviewFantasy
The Invisible Life Of Addie Larue by V.E. Schwab (ebook review).
In ‘The Invisible Life Of Addie Larue’ by V.E. Schwab, Adeline Larue grows up in the village of Villon Sur Sarthe in early…