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ALIX E HARROW The Everlasting. Reviewed by Robert Goodman

ALIX E HARROW The Everlasting. Reviewed by Robert Goodman

by NRB | 9 Dec 2025 | Fiction, SFF | 0 comments

Alix E Harrow’s time-travelling new novel asks questions about our most cherished national myths and what might happen if they were to change. Alix Harrow’s latest fantasy is a story about the power of stories. And while there have been plenty of these, this is a...
EMILY ST JOHN MANDEL Sea of Tranquility. Reviewed by Amelia Dudley

EMILY ST JOHN MANDEL Sea of Tranquility. Reviewed by Amelia Dudley

by NRB | 13 Oct 2022 | Fiction | 0 comments

The author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel travels through time in her new novel. If there’s pleasure in action, there’s peace in stillness. Emily St John Mandel takes us on a delightfully strange journey through time in her latest novel. In the distant future,...
KATE MASCARENHAS The Psychology of Time Travel. Reviewed by Amelia Dudley

KATE MASCARENHAS The Psychology of Time Travel. Reviewed by Amelia Dudley

by NRB | 22 Aug 2019 | Fiction, SFF | 0 comments

In this debut novel Kate Mascarenhas creates a world where time travel is not only possible, it could be linked to a murder … In 1967, four female scientists invent time travel, but only three of them become household names for the right reason. The fourth,...
CLAIRE NORTH The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August. Reviewed by Lou Murphy

CLAIRE NORTH The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August. Reviewed by Lou Murphy

by NRB | 17 Jul 2014 | SFF | 0 comments

The pseudonymous Claire North poses an esoteric and intellectual challenge in this historically based and convoluted time-travel story. Born as a kalachakra, or ouroboran, Harry August belongs to a unique group of individuals to whom the usual laws of birth, life...

LAUREN BEUKES The Shining Girls. Reviewed by Jean Bedford

by NRB | 21 May 2013 | Crime Scene, Fiction, SFF | 1 comment

This intriguing and original time-travelling thriller is not for the faint-hearted. Lauren Beukes is known for her genre-bending. Her first novel, Moxyland  (2008), was a futuristic cyber-punk story combined with social realism and her second, Zoo City (2010),...
             

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