Book Reviews
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ON THE NATURE OF MAGIC by Marian Womack (BOOK REVIEW)
“Helena’s investigations had made her realise how so often women’s safety, the difference between being sent to the madhouse or not, depended on how men interpreted ... -
SISTER, MAIDEN, MONSTER by Lucy A. Snyder (BOOK REVIEW)
‘Something about it was triggering a very old fear instinct in me; this creature was an actual monstrosity and did not belong in the world’ Lucy ... -
MOTHTOWN by Caroline Hardaker (BOOK REVIEW)
“Melt everything down to a great white blank. Eat anything that oozes out. No one knows how it all goes in Mothtown, and no one ever ... -
BIRNAM WOOD by ELEANOR CATTON
As some of you may know I am currently undertaking a creative writing PhD with the catchy title Navigating the mystery of future geographies in climate change ... -
THE HUNTERS by David Wragg (BOOK REVIEW)
‘You are mad, brother, the plains or the desert will claim us all, coinless, meaningless, bleached bones in sand. And what will we have achieved then? ... -
THE BOOK THAT WOULDN’T BURN by Mark Lawrence (BOOK REVIEW)
“Some silences stretch, the tension builds and builds again until the suddenness of the inevitable snap. That’s the quiet which lies between people. Other silences fall ... -
TERMUSH by Sven Holm (BOOK REVIEW)
Sven Holm – Termush (1967, translated by Sylvia Clayton 1969) “Our fear is no longer a fear of death but of change and mutilation. We have ... -
FOURTH WING by Rebecca Yarros (BOOK REVIEW)
“I force my breathing to calm, my heart rate to slow from its gallop. If I panic, I’ll die. If I slip, I’ll die. If I… ... -
CONQUEST by Nina Allan (BOOK REVIEW)
“Frank says information is corrosive, like acid – once you touch it, you’re changed by it, you find you’ve been burned. Not long after Frank went ... -
GREYSKIN by James Kinsley (BOOK REVIEW)
Kinsley’s first novella, Playtime’s Over, was published by Propolis in 2021. Playtime’s Over is the story of Will, a young man on the brink of taking his own life, who is ...
