Expect Me Tomorrow by Christopher Priest
The latest Christopher Priest novel is a science fiction novel that combines crimes of the past with a cli-fi setting of the future. It…
Year: 2022
Ruination by Anthony Reynolds
In the world of Fantasy books and publishing, this book is being seen as “an event”. With such a big occasion (and the fact…
Hugo Award Winners, 2022
The Hugo Awards were given at the Chicon8 Worldcon in Chicago on Sunday 4th September 2022. The nominees and winners were as follows (winners…
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
For those who don’t know The Last Unicorn is a much-loved Fantasy story first published in 1968. For lots of legal reasons, it has…
The Garden of Empire by JT Greathouse
The empire, like a garden, must be watered. With aid to the people in their time of need. With redress to their grievances in…
A Second Chance by Jodi Taylor
It’s been a while since I tackled the last of these. (Book One was reviewed HERE and Book Two was reviewed HERE back in…
The Calculations of Rational Men by Daniel Godfrey
The reveal in a novel can make or break an excellent premise, especially in thrillers. The Calculations of Rational Men doesn’t disappoint. As established…
THE BOOK EATERS by Sunyi Dean
Biblioholics, voracious readers, that’s what some of us who read upwards of fifty or even one hundred books per year call ourselves. But the…
The Fires of Pompeii by James Moran
And so onto the latest Doctor Who novelisation. After two Fourth Doctor stories (The Stones of Blood and The Androids of Tara), we’re next…
BLACK TIDE by K.C. Jones
It’s the end of the world, but not quite as we know it. Meteors crash land, monsters appear, and worlds collide; the world is…
British Fantasy Society Award Nominees 2022
The nominees for this year’s British Fantasy Society Awards have been announced. They are: Here are the nominations for the 2022 awards, with the…
The Last Storm by Tim Lebbon
Post-apocalypse novels – they’re all the rage at the moment, aren’t they? It seems that whenever things are tough, we like to indulge in…
News: 2022 World Fantasy Award Nominees Announced
The finalists for the 2022 World Fantasy Awards have been announced. The winners will be announced at the World Fantasy Convention, November 3-6, 2022…
A MIRROR MENDED by Alix E. Harrow (Fractured Fables #2)
Multiverse hopping, story-fixing Zinnia Gray returns in Alix Harrow’s second Fractured Fables story, A Mirror Mended. After “repairing” some stories (much in the same…
The Androids of Tara by David Fisher
And so to the second of these latest Doctor Who novelisations, based on the scripts of the original Doctor Who series. (My review of…
KAGEN THE DAMNED by Jonathan Maberry
Jonathan Maberry is an accomplished writer of dark tales, having won multiple Bram Stoker awards for his horror fiction, and is a national bestseller.…
The Stones of Blood by David Fisher
As we approach the 60th anniversary of the television programme Doctor Who (next year), I got to thinking about why this particular series, out…
IN THE SHADOW OF LIGHTNING by Brian McClellan (The Glass Immortals #1)
Brian McClellan burst onto the fantasy landscape almost a decade ago (2013) with Promise of Blood, the first of his Powder Mage saga. With…
The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah
Neither here nor there, but long ago… Loulie al-Nazari is the Midnight Merchant: a criminal who, with the help of her jinn bodyguard, hunts…
Kings of a Dead World by Jamie Mollart
Jamie Mollart’s Kings of A Dead World hits a weakness or two of mine. For those that don’t know me, I should explain. I…
