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Author: Jonathan Thornton

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Jonathan Thornton

Jonathan Thornton is from Scotland but grew up in Kenya, and now lives in Liverpool. He has a lifelong love of fantasy and science fiction, kicked off by reading The Lord Of The Rings and Dune at an impressionable age. Nowadays his favourite writers are Michael Moorcock, John Crowley, Gene Wolfe, Patricia McKillip and Ursula Le Guin. He has a day job working with mosquitoes, and one day wants to finish writing his own stories. You can find Jonathan on Twitter at @JonathanThornt2.

  • Book ReviewsHorrorPsychologicalRetellingThriller
    By Jonathan Thornton
    July 11, 2025
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    SOUR CHERRY by Natalia Theodoridou (BOOK REVIEW)

    “He was wrong, of course, about what is natural. In her years with her husband, Eunice had come to understand a thing about nature, the one ...
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  • Book ReviewsCat & Jonathan's Horror CornerHorrorZombie
    By Jonathan Thornton
    May 13, 2025
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    ONE YELLOW EYE by Leigh Radford (HORROR CORNER)

    Welcome to Cat & Jonathan’s Horror Corner! That’s right, we’ve entrusted Cat and Jonathan with a whole new feature of their own – a corner of ...
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  • Book ReviewsCrimeFictionHistoricalTrue Crime
    By Jonathan Thornton
    May 9, 2025
    253
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    A GRANITE SILENCE by Nina Allan (BOOK REVIEW)

    “Even as I try to restrict myself to the facts, I come to realise I will never stop being a writer compelled to imagine, and what ...
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  • Book ReviewsClimate FictionScience FictionUtopian/Distopian
    By Jonathan Thornton
    March 27, 2025
    406
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    ICE by Anna Kavan (BOOK REVIEW)

    “I should have been inured to climatic changes; but I again felt I had moved out of ordinary life into an area of total strangeness. All ...
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  • Author SpotlightBlogFeaturesInterviews
    By Jonathan Thornton
    March 19, 2025
    379
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    Interview with Lucy Rose (THE LAMB)

    Cumbrian dwelling in the North East. Writer of folktales and fables. Lucy Rose is a Sunday Times Bestselling author and award-winning filmmaker with an interest in ...
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  • Book ReviewsHorrorSupernatural
    By Jonathan Thornton
    March 5, 2025
    286
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    AT THE BOTTOM OF THE GARDEN by Camilla Bruce (BOOK REVIEW)

    “Why is that?” I asked in a voice hoarse from lecturing. “Do you think the wicked witches and cruel stepmothers in your storybooks just appeared, like ...
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  • Book ReviewsClimate FictionScience Fiction
    By Jonathan Thornton
    February 25, 2025
    356
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    AERTH by Deborah Tomkins (BOOK REVIEW)

    “First, do no harm, says his mother every morning at breakfast: Before anything else, first, do no harm. Her reminder before he goes to school. He ...
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  • Book ReviewsFolkHorror
    By Jonathan Thornton
    February 21, 2025
    965
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    THE LAMB by Lucy Rose (BOOK REVIEW)

    “That’s when I realized that, as adults look at children, they don’t really see them. They see a body without a mind. Something that does what ...
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  • BlogObituaries
    By Jonathan Thornton
    February 17, 2025
    226
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    Barry N. Malzberg (1939-2024) OBITUARY

    Barry N. Malzberg (1939-2024) The Fantasy Hive was saddened to hear of the passing of US author Barry N. Malzberg in December. Malzberg was one of ...
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  • BlogNews and AnnouncementsObituaries
    By Jonathan Thornton
    February 14, 2025
    470
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    JONATHAN’S TOP 10 CHRIS MOORE COVERS

    Top 10 Chris Moore Covers The Fantasy Hive was saddened to hear of the death of science fiction illustrator Chris Moore (1947-2025). Across his career, Moore ...
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