More successfully than any other novel I've read recently, Bernard Beckett's Genesis epitomises the investigative ideal of science fiction. By any standards it's a short novel and at 150 pages is perhaps ...
Stonewiser: The Call of the Stone is the second volume in Dora Machado's gripping fantasy, the Stonewiser trilogy. With barely a pause for breath, it takes up the story of its troubled heroine, Sariah, ...
On balance it’s difficult not to recommend Nick Harkaway’s debut novel, The Gone-Away World, as its one significant flaw is outweighed by its many virtues. Here is a novel bursting with originality and ...
Earlier this year, Paul (don’t pronounce the G) Magrs published Conjugal Rites , the third in a series of novels featuring Brenda, an elderly and very capable lady who runs a Bed and Breakfast in the ...
If pressed to pick one reason why Neil Gaiman stands out from the crowd, it would be this I think: he is one of a select few authors able through their fiction to speak with ease and conviction to adults ...
We never learn the name of the narrator of The Gargoyle, but as he says, perhaps there are some things you leave behind when you choose a new life. By the time he concludes his story we understand why ...
In Dreamers of the Day Mary Doria Russell gives us the story of Agnes Shanklin, observer and unlikely participant in the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference which saw the modern Middle East take shape. If it is ...
Between truth and deception, between justice and abuse, a Stonewiser stands alone with the stones... Or so begins the Stonewiser's oath. But what happens when a rebellious Stonewiser discovers that lies ...
Robert Charles Wilson’s Darwinia is as near perfect as fiction comes. It’s literary, intelligent and entertaining in equal measure. Rarely does a writer get it this right. Wilson’s characters are complex ...
Critically acclaimed writer Gregory Frost has been nominated for every major fantasy award. His latest novel Shadowbridge was released in January and will be concluded in Lord Tophet, due out in June. ...
Every review of The Somnambulist I’ve read begins by quoting the novel’s opening paragraph, an extremely critical review of the book by its own narrator. I’m going to resist the temptation to do the same. ...
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Children of Hurin is a dark and tragic story. A tale of faerie it might be, but this is certainly no fairy tale! Too grim to be enchanting, it does however enthrall with horrific ...
The urge to read Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson’s continuation of Frank Herbert’s Dune series is a bit like the urge to purchase a lotto ticket. Buying the ticket makes sense because what you’re gaining ...