Historical
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The Gameshouse by Claire North (Book Review)
Everyone has heard of the Gameshouse. But few know all its secrets…. It is the place where fortunes can be made and lost through chess, backgammon-every ... -
Lancelot by Giles Kristian (Book Review)
It’s taken me some time to gather my thoughts about Lancelot – I’d been immersed in its world for so long that it no longer feels ... -
The Wolf in the Whale by Jordanna Max Brodsky (Book Review)
I’ve just finished The Wolf in the Whale by Jordanna Max Brodsky and I’m a bit blown away. It starts as a very tight and intimate ... -
The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark (Book Review)
I had been looking forward to cracking open this novella since I happened across an ARC at BristolCon last year (talk about striking gold!). I discovered ... -
Where Oblivion Lives by T. Frohock (Book Review)
Where Oblivion Lives takes us once more into Frohock’s world of Los Nefilim – a fantasy creation overlaid on historical reality as intrinsically and indivisibly as ... -
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
“We are made up of stories. And even the ones that seem the most like lies can be our deepest hidden truths.” An argument used to ... -
The Hive Reads… Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho
Welcome to the sixth instalment of our ‘Hive Reads’ feature! (You can read the others here.) After settling on Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho ... -
The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty
The City of Brass is 532 pages told in thirty number chapters with an epilogue. The story is told in the third person via Nahri and ... -
The Night Lies Bleeding by M.D. Lachlan
In its opening, The Night Lies Bleeding reminded me of The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan. We meet Endamon Craw looking out over the London blitz ... -
Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly
“At the beginning of the workweek, most of Amberlough’s salary-folk crawled reluctantly from their bed – or someone else’s – and let the trolleys tow them, ...
