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I’ve always loved comics, or graphic novels as they are known these days. While I never had access to the big Marvel and DC brands as a kid, I read a lot of Archie comics,...
Book Blurb: 1904. On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there is a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. In a smoky room at the hotel across the river, an Old Drifter named Percy...
Nora did a hat trick with this series and won a Hugo award for each of the three books in 2016, 2017, and 2018. Well deserved I tell ya. I’m also aware that I...
Book Blurb: He is a twelve-year-old outsider; bullied at school, dreaming about his absentee father, bored with life on a dreary housing estate. One evening he meets a mysterious girl. As friendship blossoms between...
Fay Weldon was, at the age of fifteen (ish – it may have been fourteen), my first introduction to feminist writing. I read many of her books in rapid succession at the time, starting with this...
Book Blurb: Synonyms: Trespassers, interlopers, invaders, prowlers, infiltrators, encroachers, violators Orphans sisters chase monsters of urban legend in Bloemfontein. At a busy taxi rank, a woman kills a man with her shoe. A genomicist...
Another N.K Jemisin book because I seriously can’t get enough of this woman’s writing style. Book Blurb: The Seasons of endings grows darker as civilization fades into the long, cold night. Essun has found...
Argh! I really want to love Neil Gaiman’s work. I really do. He sounds like someone I should enjoy reading, but I just find him okay. I’m watching the series based on the novel,...
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