Books

In one sense, there is nothing in The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix that you haven’t read a thousand times before in any number of fantasy books where an ordinary everyday mortal discovers they have a far richer and more fantastical inheritance than they could ever have imagined. Continue Reading

Life can be so unremittingly bleak at times, 2020 being a perfect case in point, that it’s important to be reminded of the opportunities it affords for salvation, redemption and fresh starts. These are not exactly lying on the ground for us to gather up as we will, but as Continue Reading

In the often action-packed world of urban fantasy, where narratives move at a blistering pace and the time for introspection or contemplation is scant, it’s rare to have characters who truly wear their hearts on their sleeves. That’s not to say that characters in all urban fantasies don’t go on Continue Reading

For many people, family is the prism through which much of life makes sense. We may not always love our fellow family members are fully and completely as Hallmark might suggest, but it is through our connections to our parents and siblings and uncles and aunts and grandparents and on Continue Reading

After what has been by any measure the year from hell, where reality’s failings have been laid bare without fear or favour and without the hint of an apology, you could be forgiven for wondering if there is anything good or just left in the world at all. Everywhere you Continue Reading

Much of the time, the way we react to life is purely instinctual, especially when we’re children and we form our defensive responses less on reason and more on emotion and a need for some kind of perceived protection. The problem with these perfectly understandable responses to childhood trauma is Continue Reading

If aliens were to invade Earth, and let’s be honest, if popular culture is any guide they are queued all the way back to the Kuiper Belt waiting to do so, the first question we would need to ask ourselves is who do need saving from – them or ourselves? Continue Reading

Sociopaths and psychopaths aside, no one ever wakes up one day and thinks to themselves that now is the time I will put aside all my lofty hopes and dreams for the future and choose instead to do those things which slowly but surely corrode my soul and eat away Continue Reading