Author: T.O. Munro
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THE BOOK OF DAVE by Will Self – THE UNSEEN ACADEMIC
This is the first in an occasional series of posts drawing on my excursion into the academic side of creative writing. Having taken a career break ... -
THE DROWNED WORLD by J. G. Ballard (BOOK REVIEW)
Ballard’s debut novel The Drowned World was published in 1962 after he had already enjoyed some years of success with short stories. In a later interview ... -
A WIZARD’S SACRIFICE by A.M.Justice (BOOK REVIEW)
This is the second book in Justice’s Woern Saga and I can only recall two other occasions where I have started a series with book two. ... -
NOTES FROM SMALL PLANETS by Nate Crowley (BOOK REVIEW)
Sci-fi and fantasy love to be epic. There’s nothing like an existential threat to the world or galaxy whose resolution inevitably comes down to a handful ... -
TENET directed by Christopher Nolan (FILM REVIEW)
As our first post-lockdown cinema trip, Tenet certainly offered plenty of flash bang entertainment, but beneath the muscular action sequences lies an intricately twisted plot that ... -
SCARLET ODYSSEY by C. T. Rwizi (BOOK REVIEW)
In Scarlet Odyssey, Rwizi has given us a rich and immersive world resonant of Africa with its equatorial jungles, huge navigable lakes and broad sweeping plains. ... -
Threading the Labyrinth by Tiffani Angus – Book Review
Threading the Labyrinth is an unusual work of fantasy fiction. The simplest handle on it might be to say that it is like a grown-up development ... -
SIXTEEN WAYS TO DEFEND A WALLED CITY by K. J. Parker (Book Review)
I leapt at this book with an enthusiasm born of an engineering background, an appreciation of historical sieges, a love of fantasy and a yearning for ... -
DARK RIVER by Rym Kechacha (Book Review)
I’ve been keen to read Rym Kechacha’s debut novel “Dark River” from the moment I heard about its central premise, twin timelines set 8000 years apart ... -
SORCERY REBORN by Steve McHugh (Book Review)
I came to this book, the start in a new Rebellion series by Steve McHugh, having read just the first of the previous twelve books that ...
