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Thinking of Winter in Summer

Winter: A Folio Anthology by Various

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I ordered my brother a set of Hornblower novels from The Folio Society as a birthday present (his planned present of a trip to see Harry Potter and the Cursed Child being delayed by Coronavirus) and they sent me this delightful little anthology on the theme of winter as a free gift. I promised I’d read and review it and managed to do that over lunch today. There are little anthologies for all the seasons containing poems, snippets of stories, fables, and documents relating to […]

Time for some magitech

False Value by Ben Aaronovitch

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The Rivers of London series is one of my favourites being a London based urban fantasy centring around DC Peter Grant, a copper who back in the first book got himself mixed up in magic and seconded to the Metropolitan Police’s covet magic division “The Folly”. We’re now at the eighth full length novel in an increasing detailed series – we have offshoots in other countries (The October Man in Germany), graphic novels, and a sense of a slowly building world in which magic is […]

A bit of a Carry On…

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

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The premise of this book intrigued me with it being a full story set in a pseudo-Harry Potter world dreamed up to be a novel series in another book (Fangirl) whose protagonist wrote fan fiction. So it’s a fictionalisation of a book series that was Harry Potter with the numbers filed off. And our lead characters here are Harry & Draco archetypes (called Simon and Baz) with the idea being that in the Fangirl-verse everyone wanted them to be in a relationship rather than enemies. […]

Anxiety and prejudice in Space

The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kawal

The Fated Sky by Mary Robinette Kawal

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These two books by Mary Robinette Kawal are a prequel to her earlier short story The Lady Astronaut of Mars and tell the story of the accelerated human exploration of space triggered by a catastrophic event. Our protagonist is Dr Elma York a young(ish) woman who is a mathematical prodigy and qualified pilot – having flown with the WASPs during the WW2. In these books we follow her journey through the 1950s to the 1960s dealing with a world in crisis, prejudice, and her own […]

Kingdom Hearts: Don’t Chase the Dream

Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance by Tomoco Kanemaki

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Another light novel adaptation in the increasingly convoluted Kingdom Hearts series! It will always amuse me that there are technically 3 main games in this series, but if that’s all you played / read then you will be very confused as all of the offshoots are relevant to the plot. This is a novelisation of a game that first appeared on the Nintendo 3DS – which is the entire reason for the name – and which has subsequently appeared on PS4 and Xbox. Story-wise this […]



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