Category: Books
Tales From The Graveyard: A North Bristol Writers Anthology by Peter Sutton and Eric Nash (book review).
Lurking in the media shadows behind the bright lights of Hollywood and the bestsellers vying for your attention are little books put out by small presses and local authors. Their zero marketing budget means they often go undeservedly unnoticed. One such tome is ‘Tales From The Graveyard’, an anthology of spooky stories from some writers […]
Doctor Who: Scratchman by Tom Baker (book review).
Inside the cover of ‘Scratchman’, it adds James Goss as the co-author of this book years in the making. As my additional press release material tells me, the idea was originally a hot project in the years Tom Baker was playing the Doctor and it has finally come to fruition in the year of his […]
A Quick Bite (Argeneau Family) by Lynsay Sands (book review).
A series of books, especially a long one (the 29th is due to be published this month) has to start somewhere. ‘A Quick Bite’ is touted as the first in the series. It is not the first to be published, it was the fourth. Writing books out of order presents problems. The first one is […]
Winds Of Marque: Blackwood & Virtue by Bennett Coles
A team within the space equivalent of the navy are sent on an undercover mission, disguised as merchants, to stop pirates. If they succeed, they will receive riches and, if they fail, the rest of the navy will hunt them down. Liam Blackwood is an executive officer in the navy. Having just come back from […]
Gene Wolfe, one of science fiction’s greatest writers, passes away.
Sad news in today. One of the greats passed away yesterday at the grand old age of 87 – award-winning SFF author Gene Wolfe, who produced The Book of the New Sun – a tetralogy exploring the adventures of Severian, a disgraced and exiled torturer forced to wander a strange far-future Earth (Urth) in an […]
A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan series book 1) by Arkady Martine.
‘A Memory Called Empire’ is book one in the Teixcalaan series by Arkady Martine. Having said that, I felt that it could be read as a standalone. It is also Martine’s debut novel, something I found hard to believe as I was reading it as it was so well-written and accomplished. In ‘A Memory Called […]
100 Innovations Of The Industrial Revolution: From 1700 To 1860 by Simon Forty (book review).
As author Simon Forty explains in the introduction, picking out just 100 choices for his book, ‘100 Innovations Of The Industrial Revolution: From 1700 To 1860’, meant being selective. Even so, this is the era of early steel production so it would hardly be surprising that several of the choices were in its manufacture. This […]
Cloudbound (Bone Universe book 2) by Fran Wilde (book review).
‘Cloudbound (Bone Universe book 2)’ by Fran Wilde follows on from ‘Updraft’, but with a different protagonist. Nat Densira, Kirit’s lifelong friend and former neighbour, is an apprentice counsellor on the new council. He is helping to move society forward now that they are free from the singers’ rule. But politics are more complicated than […]
Barren (A Demon Cycle Novella) by Peter V Brett (book review).
Peter V Brett’s ‘Demon Cycle’ is an epic fantasy set over five fairly sizeable books and a number of accompanying novellas. ‘Barren’ is the most recent of those novellas and with only 135 pages you might expect it to be a little light on content but, in those pages, Brett fits in what many others […]
Sinless (Eye Of The Beholder: Book 1) by Sarah Tarkoff (book review).
‘Sinless Eye Of The Beholder Book 1’ by Sarah Tarkoff imagines a future where the existence of God and one true religion has been proven by sins having a physical impact on the way people look. Since the Revelation, if you commit a sin, your physical appearance will change. This can be anything as simple […]
