Posted on 11 Apr 2023 in Fiction, SFF |
The first of Brandon Sanderson’s ‘secret novels’ delivers a resourceful heroine on an epic quest. During the pandemic, prolific fantasy author Brandon Sanderson found he had more time on his hands and, as he puts it, ‘Brandon +...
Posted on 6 Apr 2023 in Fiction |
Ronnie Scott’s second novel explores themes of abandonment, attachment and the idea of home. Characterised from the beginning by a sense of uncertainty, Shirley is a novel where anything can happen, and probably will. Names are ambiguous, sexuality...
Posted on 4 Apr 2023 in Fiction |
The new novel from the award-winning author of Winter in Sokcho explores the lives of Koreans living in Japan. At first, the language of this novel seems spare and abrupt, but gradually it draws you into the strange, disconnected life of the...
Posted on 30 Mar 2023 in Fiction |
The new novel from this iconic writer embraces conspiracies, hallucinations and paranoia in America’s South. The Passenger is an ambitious novel; it is also a little crazy. I was by turns gripped, maddened, bored and intrigued. It is a novel about...
Posted on 28 Mar 2023 in Fiction, SFF |
AK Larkwood’s debut fantasy series combines a death cult, magical artefacts, and an accomplished assassin. ‘Only I am without end, for desolation is my watchword. Yet nothing is to be forgotten that belongs to me. All things that are lost...
Posted on 23 Mar 2023 in Crime Scene, Fiction |
SD Hinton’s debut novel uses the structure of a thriller to explore myriad responses to trauma. Jake Harlow is a decorated Special Forces veteran, returned from a tour in Afghanistan that went horribly wrong for him. Captured by the Taliban,...