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Fairyland is calling

Letters from Fairyland by Charles van Sandwyk

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As a Christmas present my mum bought me this lovely little folio edition – Letters from Fairyland. It’s a tiny book of only 24 pages long but is a beautiful concept. The author and artist Charles van Sandwyk has illustrated books like Alice in Wonderland for the Folio Society before and also wrote a book called “How to see Fairies”. This acts as a follow up with the premise that a child wrote to him about wanting to spot fairies in their garden and this […]

Dresden Returns!

Peace Talks by Jim Butcher

Battle Ground by Jim Butcher

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After a longer than usual gap Harry Dresden returned this year in not one, but two, books. Well… kind of. The reality is that Peace Talks and Battle Ground are really one book that got too long for the publisher and so it got split. At a guess this lengthened the writing process as there would have been some rework to try and create a division and narrative for both books. It didn’t entirely work which is why I didn’t review until I’ve had the […]

A series of small follies

Tales from The Folly by Ben Aaronovitch

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The Rivers of London stories have spread out from their original novels into a number of formats – an ongoing graphic novel series, and short stories posted in varying places. Tales from the Folly collates a number of these short stories into a book to provide some little offshoots for the main character Peter Grant, but also some limelight to other characters that have appeared. It’s an interesting collection as the stories cover varying time periods – for Peter from early in his career at […]

Picard: Counting down to the series

Picard: Countdown by Kirsten Beyer & Mike Johnson

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This was a 3 part comic series published as a graphic novel covering the events that lead up to the latest Star Trek Series Picard. Generally speaking I’d recommend reading this first if you haven’t seen Picard and want to as it’ll provide some detail and context that takes more effort with the show. It covers events that lead up to the Kelvinverse Star Trek movies as well as it focuses on the risk of Romulus’s sun going nova and Picard is leading the mission […]

An introduction to Tortall

Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce

In the Hand of the Goddess by Tamora Pierce

The Woman who Rides like a Man by Tamora Pierce

Lioness Rampant by Tamora Pierce

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The 4 books that make up the Song of the Lioness series are Tamora Pierce’s first exploration of her world of Tortall. A western medieval society with chivalry and magic of many kinds. I read the first book in this series (Alanna) when I was a child and for many years never even realised it had sequels. But it stuck with me over the years and about 10 years ago I found the books again and read them all with new eyes. I come back […]



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