This week I’m recommending `Uprooted’ by Naomi Novik. She is the author of the popular `Temeraire’ books about the relationship between a Chinese dragon and an English naval captain at the time of the Napoleonic wars. I had some reservations about this Historical Fantasy series but I’ve been completely won over by Novik’s new novel,… Continue reading
This week I’m recommending Book One of `Iremonger’, a series set in a bizarre version of Victorian London. `Heap House’ by British-born author and artist, Edward Carey was published in 2013. It’s available in paperback or as an ebook but to get the full impact of Carey’s creepy monochrome illustrations you really need the hardback… Continue reading
This week I’m back to the theme of modern writers inspired by traditional Fairy Tales. In this case, one particular tale recorded by the Brothers Grimm – `The Goose Girl’. Do you remember the plot? A queen sends her daughter to marry a prince who lives in a far away land. The princess rides a… Continue reading
This week I’m recommending another collection of Fantasy stories which offers new interpretations of traditional tales. `Toad Words and Other Stories’ by T.Kingfisher contains seven short stories, one novella and three poems. Most of these items have appeared elsewhere but the novella is original to this collection, which came out in 2014. T.Kingfisher is a… Continue reading
This week I’m recommending a ground-breaking book which deserves to be better known. `The Warrior Who Carried Life’ (1985) was the first published novel of Canadian-born SF and Fantasy author Geoff Ryman. It was out of print for many years but having read this book came to be one of the signs by which dedicated… Continue reading