Book Reviews
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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 ... -
GODS OF THE WYRDWOOD by RJ Barker (BOOK REVIEW)
You are running but you are not running fast enough. You are running. Running. RJ Barker is back with a new trilogy, The Forsaken Trilogy, and Gods ... -
WATCHMEN by Alan Moore and David Gibbons (BOOK REVIEW)
This Hugo Award-winning graphic novel chronicles the fall from grace of a group of super-heroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Along the way, the concept of the ... -
THE BITTER TWINS by Jen Williams (BOOK REVIEW)
“’Our armies, with their shining armour and singing swords are rusty and dusty bones. We are like.. an echo of something that came before.’” The ... -
THE WATER KNIFE by Paolo Bacigalupi – THE UNSEEN ACADEMIC
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 ...
