Author: Jonathan Thornton
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Celebrating Small Presses – #SmallPressBigStories
Celebrating Small Presses This month, following Runalong Womble of Read Along The Shelves’ lead, we at the Fantasy Hive are celebrating small presses. Small Presses are ... -
JAWBONE by Mónica Ojeda (BOOK REVIEW)
Mónica Ojeda – Jawbone (2017, translated by Sarah Booker 2021, published in the UK by New Ruins 2022) “Monsters have to be taught how to be ... -
THE WITNESSES ARE GONE by Joel Lane (BOOK REVIEW)
“Everything we search for, every holy grail, is something we cannot afford to find.” After bringing Joel Lane’s debut novel From Blue To Black (2000), short ... -
LEECH by Hiron Ennes (BOOK REVIEW)
“Many patients, in times of stress, will recount dreams haunted by images of their bodies falling apart. Sometimes they tell me stories of paralysis, or rotten ... -
EXPECT ME TOMORROW by Christopher Priest (BOOK REVIEW)
“How much longer could they continue to live here? The impossibility of life in this constant heat, the risk and inconvenience of venturing outside, the sense ... -
THE MOONDAY LETTERS by Emmi Itäranta (BOOK REVIEW)
“We carry within us every home, including those that no longer exist, so we’d have somewhere to return to.” “Pests have hitched rides with humans to ... -
The Disappearance of Josef Mengele by Olivier Guez (BOOK REVIEW)
“This is the story of an unscrupulous man with a small, hard soul struck down by a poisonous and deadly ideology that spread through a society ... -
CLUB DED by Nikhil Singh (BOOK REVIEW)
“She calls them messages from the deep. Not the voices of individuals. These are the voices of cities. Cities sometimes speak through people. Did you know ... -
HOW HIGH WE GO IN THE DARK by Sequoia Nagamatsu (BOOK REVIEW)
“Once, I asked her what she was doing, and she said she was just trying to keep track of it all because it didn’t seem like ... -
ANIMALS AT NIGHT by Naomi Booth (BOOK REVIEW)
“They’re getting drunk and reminiscing about their old lives, about gigs and parties and festivals on faraway beaches where they’d danced and played like animals at ...