Minor Mage by T. Kingfisher
I just don’t know how Ursula Vernon, aka T. Kingfisher, does it. Every single book/story by her I’ve read I’ve loved, and usually read far too quickly as I try to...
4 August 2019
Thirteen ways of looking by Colum McCann
A novella, Thirteen ways of looking and short stories, What time is it now, where you are?, Sh’hkol, Treaty. Trigger warning – assault & rape are referenced. The first story, the...
9 June 2019
In the Vanishers’ palace by Aliette de Bodard
How do people survive after colonisation and enslavement? What happens to a society that has been stamped out when those invaders leave, and all that remains is damage and pain? It’s...
28 October 2018
Nutshell by Ian McEwan
Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She’s still in the marital home – a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse – but not with John. Instead, she’s with his brother, the profoundly banal...
31 October 2016
The Wilful Princess and the Piebald Prince by Robin Hobb
Some years ago1 I first discovered Robin Hobb and her wonderful wonderful awesome series of books The Farseer Trilogy. They are wonderful2 and I love and adore them. I’ve loved all...
14 February 2014
Nine Goblins by T. Kingfisher
a novella. Sergeant Nessilka and a band of the Nineteenth, after heroically charging at an enemy wizard during battle, find themselves transported far from war. On the one hand that is...
11 December 2013
On a red station, drifting by Aliette de Bodard
Ever since she arrived on Prosper Station Quyen has been welcomed by the Honoured Ancestress, the artificial intelligence that runs the station. Now that her husband has been called away to...
21 April 2013
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