Historical
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THE WITCH AND THE TSAR by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore (BOOK REVIEW)
Sometimes the true story is cloaked in lies to hide its power The Witch and the Tsar is Olesya Salnikova Gilmore’s debut historical fantasy novel. ... -
A RESTLESS TRUTH by Freya Marske (BOOK REVIEW)
A Restless Truth is Freya Marske’s much anticipated sequel to her queer historical fantasy, A Marvellous Light. The story picks up not long after the events of ... -
A MARVELLOUS LIGHT by Freya Marske (BOOK REVIEW)
A Marvellous Light is Australian author Freya Marske’s debut novel of Edwardian magicians. It’s a beautiful story of self-discovery, featuring sumptuous prose, that I burned through in ... -
ITHACA by Claire North (BUDDY READ BOOK REVIEW)
Nils and Beth were very kindly sent proofs of Claire North’s upcoming novel Ithaca from Nazia at Orbit Books, so we thought it was the perfect opportunity ... -
HEART OF STONE by Johannes T Evans (BOOK REVIEW)
The year is 1764, and following a glowing recommendation from his last employer, Henry Coffey, vampire, takes on a new personal secretary: young Theophilus Essex. The ... -
ORDINARY MONSTERS by J. M. Miro (BOOK REVIEW)
“What else is loss? What is death? Who doesn’t believe in things they can’t explain? God and the angels, gravity and electricity, death and the mystery ... -
THE WINTER GARDEN by Alexandra Bell (BOOK REVIEW)
Content warnings: Death of parents and children, and grief; spousal abuse in all forms; drug use; pregnancy complications and intense postpartum depression. Welcome to the Winter ... -
WENDY, DARLING by A C Wise (BOOK REVIEW
Content warnings: A huge amount of medical abuse and gaslighting; depictions of abusive asylums; mentions of suicide; mentions of sexual assault. I don’t tend to consider ... -
A MAN LIES DREAMING & THE LUNACY COMMISSION by Lavie Tidhar (BOOK REVIEWS)
“But there you are wrong, for this is no longer the world you knew, the world any of us knew. That world is dead, everything is ... -
BRIGHTFALL by Jaime Lee Moyer (BOOK REVIEW)
When I first heard that there was going to be a magical Robin Hood story that picked up years after the heyday of the Merry Men, ...