By Eddy Shah
It would be easy to let the larger than life personality and extraordinary biography of media magnate Eddy Shah get in the way of any review of one of his novels so you have to steel yourself and make sure that you give credit where credit is due. The fact is that [...]
By William Heaney
Knowing nothing of its origins and having never heard of the author I came at this for the title mostly, it promises much, and while it didn’t deliver what I was expecting it did surprise me in different and very enjoyable ways.
Written in the first person it’s the memoir of a middle-aged man, [...]
By Alison Goodman
Occasionally you pick up a book and the expectation is low. You read the book jacket and it instantly feels derivative, nothing new, even - dare I say it - a copycat, and in the field of fantasy, that first impression is often, sadly, the right one. Every now and again [...]
By John Scalzi
The Last Colony is the final part in the epic space adventure involving John Perry, who we met first in Old Man’s War and who’s story continues in The Ghost Brigades and concludes with this one. Book one is very focused on the Colonial Defence Forces, the technology employed in recruiting and [...]
By Charles Stross
When I reviewed the first in this series, The Family Trade, I remember being blown away by how such a simple premise could be made into such a gripping thriller. I’m pleased to say that part two of the series, The Hidden Family, carries on in the same tradition.
We rejoin Miriam in [...]
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