Tag: Historical
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THE SEVEN MOONS OF MAALI ALMEIDA by Shehan Karunatilaka (BOOK REVIEW)
“Being a ghost isn’t that different to being a war photographer. Long periods of boredom interspersed with short bursts of terror. As action-packed as your post-death ... -
ALL THE BLOOD WE SHARE by Camilla Bruce (BOOK REVIEW)
“We take care of our own. The rest can fend for themselves.” “It just will not do to let people see the maggots that crawl inside ... -
THE HOTHOUSE BY THE EAST RIVER by Muriel Spark (BOOK REVIEW)
“There isn’t any war and peace any more, no good and evil, no communism, no capitalism, no fascism. There’s one area of conflict left and that’s ... -
SKEIN ISLAND by Aliya Whiteley (BOOK REVIEW)
“I keep her trapped in my words. I hold her prisoner, and that is what she deserves” Aliya Whiteley writes across many different genres and lengths. ... -
Balancing the Wheel: Researching Origins of The Wheel Of Time – GUEST POST by Michael Livingston
Balancing the Wheel: Researching Origins of The Wheel Of Time by Michael Livingston I trained to be a historian because I enjoy history. So it makes ... -
EMILY WILDE’S ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FAERIES by Heather Fawcett (BOOK REVIEW)
“I suppose most children fall in love with faeries at some point, but my fascination was never about magic or the granting of wishes. The Folk ... -
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 ... -
The Disappearance of Josef Mengele by Olivier Guez (BOOK REVIEW)
“This is the story of an unscrupulous man with a small, hard soul struck down by a poisonous and deadly ideology that spread through a society ...
