by NRB | 15 Aug 2023 | Fiction |
Mexican horror movies, a Nazi occultist and dark magical powers – Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s new novel has them all. Silvia Moreno-Garcia has not yet written two books in the same genre. Though that statement may depend on how you understand genre. Her latest novel,...
by NRB | 23 Feb 2023 | Fiction |
Leigh Bardugo’s Alex Stern continues her adventures among Yale’s elite societies, picking up where Ninth House left off. ‘… This is what your magic is for, isn’t it? This is what it does. Props up the people in power, lets the people with everything take a...
by NRB | 9 Jul 2019 | Fiction, SFF |
Matt Ruff’s fiction explores the reality of writer HP Lovecraft’s world, where the real demons might be your neighbours rather than supernatural forces. The fantasy and science fiction world has a bit of a love-hate relationship with the works of HP...
by NRB | 6 Feb 2018 | Fiction |
Machado’s stories twist and turn and startle and shock. The first piece in this exhilarating collection of eight unconnected short stories begins with a beguiling instruction to readers suggesting that, if they are reading the text out loud, there are certain...
by NRB | 20 Oct 2015 | SFF |
The Mothers is a gripping, cinematically detailed horror story following a fearless 19th-century heroine as she journeys from England to Van Diemen’s Land. Liverpool, England 1880. Rosanna is a young woman whose mother had died during childbirth....
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