Books

The elephant in the room (in this room there's only me and the elephant) is The Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson. I read the final four volumes (it's 13,000 pages long, over 10 volumes) in 2021 and without sounding too melodramatic it put a real dint into...

Books

The Good

December never bore much good fruit for me. Perhaps the best was The State of the Art, by Iain M. Banks. Odd Attachment is a truly funny short story, and Descendant is quite moving. Penric's Demon by Lois McMaster Bujold was middling, an excellent start to a novel or trilogy, but not...

It's been a good while since we offered any reviews. We did write a post a couple of weeks back but the browser died and I lost the post.

TV and Film.

I'm not usually one to believe the hype, but Bodyguard on the BBC was a good few hours of fun. A....

The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley first really came to my attention in a bookshop a couple of years ago where I saw it under the John Murray imprint. Knowing it had been published by the eminent Tartarus Press I picked it up to see what the story was. Sure...

Here are our media reviews for January, a mixed bunch and some good stuff!

Books. I've read quite a few these last few weeks, mostly audiobooks. The best of the lot was Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation, the first in the Southern Reach trilogy. All three books were published within a few months of...

I thought I'd share a few reviews of things that we read, watched and heard in September. This isn't just books, so feel free to skip the other bits!

I read William Hope Hodgson's The House on the Borderland at the beginning of the month, and found myself, initially, drawn into...