Emma Newman is one of our most consistently intriguing, original and compelling storytellers. Able to switch from Regency fantasy (the Split Words novels) and Hugo Award-winning genre comedy (the Tea & Jeopardy podcast) to the otherworldly beauty of her first SF novel ‘Planetfall’; she now turns detective in a book I didn’t expect, which […]
In this extraordinary first novel, the British Empire attempts to exert its commercial and cultural influence into the Faelands, also known as Arcadia, with predictably disastrous results. Narrated by Catherine Helstone, sister of missionary Laon, the story at first channels and then pretty much becomes a sublimation of Romantic ideals as the siblings attempt to […]
@BSFA #writers interview: #Fantasy author @faithdlee is being interviewed by fellow novelist @AndrewWallaceDR live.… https://t.co/JtQoKsmTbP — Chad Dixon (@lapswood8) July 26, 2017
Art reproduced with kind permission of the artist, in this case my six-year-old daughter: Before telling a story, there are seven questions you should ask: 1: Who is the story about? 2: What do they want? 3: Why do they want it? 4: What is stopping them? 5: Why is it stopping them? 6: What […]
The deft poetry of this striking and very readable debut fantasy novel is no less affecting for its simplicity. A trio of agents lead a gang of disposable mercenaries across an uncanny wasteland called The Misery in pursuit of two heretics. The agents are led by former nobleman Galharrow, whose disgrace in a battle between […]
My little daughter drew some dragons today and we were tasked with colouring them in. She drew and coloured in the first one, which is a water dragon: Aunty Em coloured in a fire dragon: Mummy’s is an air dragon: Mine is an earth dragon:
One of the few good things about growing up in the 80s was the horror, be it in movies or a political reality that meant instant death after a four-minute warning. The emotion also underpinned spy fiction at the time in print and other media; Ian Bannen’s terrified expression when he is cornered at the […]
