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Book Review | The Black Guard by A. J. Smith 26 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Buy this book from Amazon.co.uk / The Book Depository Or get the Kindle edition The Duke of Canarn is dead, executed by the King's decree. The city lies in chaos, its people starving, sickening, and...
Book Review | Apocalypse Now Now by Charlie Human 23 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Buy this book from Amazon.co.uk / The Book Depository Or get the Kindle edition Baxter Zevcenko's life is pretty sweet. As the 16-year-old kingpin of the Spider, his smut-peddling schoolyard syndic...
The Scotsman Abroad | The Adjacency Effect 22 Aug 2013 | 06:07 pm
Horror of horrors: I've been without the internet for the last 48 hours! Actually, aside the initial inconvenience, it's been a fine few days. I squeezed a whole hell of a lot of reading in, finished...
Quoth the Scotsman | David Towsey on Distance = Speed Times Time 20 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
I've been feeling my age of late. Given the content of the last Quoth the Scotsman, you must've imagined as much. Continuing along those lines, then, I came across a particularly perceptive passage i...
Book Review | Night Boat by Alan Spence 19 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Buy this book from Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com IndieBound / The Book Depository Or get the Kindle edition My childhood name was Iwajiro, and I was eight years old when I first entered at the gates of ...
Coming Attractions | A Thousand Perfect Things by Kay Kenyon 16 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
So I was scrolling through the coming soon section of Fantastic Fiction, looking for new releases to feature in Sunday's edition of the British Genre Fiction Hitlist, when I saw, to my surprise, that ...
Guest Post | "The Inverted Image" by Tom Pollock 13 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
So... The Glass Republic. I loved it. One of the things that fascinated me most about the book was its preoccupation with perfection and reflection, so when the opportunity arose to have the author b...
Book Review | The Glass Republic by Tom Pollock 12 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Buy this book from Amazon.co.uk / The Book Depository Or get the Kindle edition Pen's life is all about secrets: the secret of the city's spirits, deities and monsters her best friend Beth discovere...
Coming Attractions | An Invitation to the Afterparty 8 Aug 2013 | 06:03 pm
I'll make no bones about it, nor any rotten appendages: I loved Raising Stony Mayhall. Alongside The Reapers are the Angels, it was easily one of the best zombie novels in recent years. It demonstrate...
Book Review | The Days of the Deer by Liliana Bodoc 5 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Buy this book from Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com IndieBound / The Book Depository Or get the Kindle edition It is known that the strangers will sail from some part of the Ancient Lands and will cross th...
