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Seanan McGuire: Every Heart a Doorway – for your reading pleasure
Nancy is sent to Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children because her parents can’t cope with her. They think she has a screw loose and don’t believe that she’s been through a portal into another world, a world of the … Continue reading
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Paul Cornell: Five Lychford Novellas – for your reading pleasure
I read each of these novellas as they were published. Each one stands alone, but together the five novellas make a complete story cycle. The Witches of Lychford A neat novella set in a sleepy Gloucestershire town threatened with the … Continue reading
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Andy Weir: The Martian – for your reading pleasure
I galloped through this book in two days, ignoring my own pressing work and letting the family sort itself out because I couldn’t put it down. I’m sure everyone has heard the plot by now: astronaut, Mark Watney, left behind … Continue reading
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Peter O’Donnell and Jim Holdaway: Modesty Blaise – The Gabriel Set-Up – for your reading pleasure
I’ve always been a big Modesty Blaise fan, coming to the novels first (in my teens) long before I realised that the character originated from the serialised graphic strip which first appeared in The Evening Standard (one of the Beaverbrook … Continue reading
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Judith Tarr: Forgotten Suns for your reading pleasure
On the deserted world of Nevermore, a family of archaeologists labours to uncover ancient mysteries despite the threat of funding cuts which will lead to the United Planets stripping the planet’s resources in a legal invasion. Nevermore presents a conundrum. … Continue reading
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Ian Whates: Pelquin’s Comet: The Dark Angels #1 – for your reading pleasure
Space opera, adventure, treasure hunting, a motley crew, aliens and some corporate intrigue are the building blocks that form this science fiction tale from Ian Whates. Pelquin is a free trader/ The Comet, his ship, and motley crew, bear some … Continue reading
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Genevieve Cogman: The Invisible Library – For your reading pleasure
This is the first in an ongoing series, and a terrific starting point. As an ex librarian I have a fondness for anything library-oriented so I wanted to like this a lot – and I did. Genevieve Cogman’s debut novel … Continue reading
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Winston Graham: Ross Poldark: A Novel of Cornwall 1783 – 1787
I’m not sure why it’s taken me the best part of forty years and two TV dramatisations to read this book. Perhaps because it was written in the 1940s I assumed the prose style would be a little stodgy, but … Continue reading
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Terry Pratchett: the Shepherd’s Crown – Discworld #41 – Tiffany Aching #5 – For your reading pleasure
Ah, the very last Terry Pratchett and a farewell not only to the author but to one of his most endearing characters, Granny Weatherwax who sets her affairs in order, cleans the house, weaves her own coffin and meets Death … Continue reading
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Tom Pollock: The City’s Son – Skyscraper Throne #1 – For your reading pleasure
A gritty, smelly, enthralling original which races around a hidden version of London introducing an assortment of bizarre nonhuman characters here in a supporting role from the pavement priests (living statues entombed in marble) and the street-lamp dancers (the orange … Continue reading
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Ann Leckie: Ancillary Justice – For Your Reading Pleasure
Breq was a space ship, the Justice of Toren, equipped with enough power to destroy planets and enough ancillaries to invade and conquer ‘uncivilised’ worlds in Radch ‘annexations’, however now she’s just Breq, human (more or less) and alone despite … Continue reading
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Terry Pratchett: Dodger – For Your Reading Pleasure
I’m a big fan of Pratchett’s discworld and although this book is set in London in the early years of Victoria’s reign, the feeling is very Ankh-Morporkian, or maybe that should be that Ankh Morpork is very much based on … Continue reading
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Sherwood Smith – Rondo Allegro – For Your Reading Pleasure
I’ve always enjoyed reading Sherwood Smith’s fantasies, in particular the Inda sequence, and I just realised there are more books in her bibliography that I misse4d, so I can see I’m going to have to spend some time catching up. … Continue reading
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Cory Doctorow – Little Brother – For your reading pleasure
This was up for a Best Novel in the Hugo awards and if I’d been eligible to vote that year I’d certainly have voted for it. Yes, it’s aimed at YA, but what the hell, it has Important things to … Continue reading
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Brent Weeks – The Way of Shadows – The Night Angel Trilogy #1 – For your reading pleasure
I discovered Tanya Huff in 2003, Lois McMaster Bujold was a couple of years after that and Patricia Briggs in 2008. Brent Weeks become my discovery of the year in 2009. His Night Angel trilogy is riveting. Having bought the … Continue reading
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Kari Sperring: Living With Ghosts – For your reading pleasure
This is a gorgeous multi-layered work with a cast of characters which includes the city of Merafi – as much a part of this as are Gracielis, failed Tarnaroqui assassin-priest now courtesan and spy; Thiercelin, husband of one of the … Continue reading
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Patricia Briggs: Steal the Dragon – For your reading pleasure
There are no dragons in this book – well there is one, but not a significant one and it only appears on the page once, in a dream. So having got that out of the way, this is early Briggs … Continue reading
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Lois McMaster Bujold: Beguilement – The Sharing Knife #1 – For your reading pleasure
All the reviews said: ‘Good, but not as good as Curse of Chalion,’ so I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. On the whole I would agree, but to my mind it will be a very exceptional book that is … Continue reading
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Charles Stross: The Bloodline Feud – for your reading pleasure
Charles Stross: The Family Trade – Merchant Princes #1 Two books, one story. I bought them as individual books, but they are now available in the omnibus The Bloodline Feud. Damn you, Charlie Stross! I was just getting into this … Continue reading
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Ann Aguirre: Grimspace – for your reading pleasure
I really liked this one. Telepathy, space travel, adventure, a damaged heroine and tormented telepathic hero. What’s not to like? Sirantha Jax carries the J-gene that enables her to jump ships across space. It’s a talent that’s likely to kill … Continue reading
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Lisa Shearin’s Raine Benares books – for your reading pleasure.
I’ll be perfectly honest, though I liked the first Raine Benares book, Magic Lost, Trouble Found I wasn’t 100% in love with it. Luckily I liked it enough to get the second book, Armed and Magical, which picks up just … Continue reading
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Anne Lyle: Night’s Masque Trilogy – for your reading pleasure
Published by Angry Robot, The Alchemist of Souls, Merchant of Dreams, and The Prince of Lies are the three books in Anne Lyle’s Night’s Mask Trilogy, set in Elizabethan London with (kind of) aliens. Queen Elizabeth has married, produced heirs … Continue reading
Scott Lynch: The Lies of Locke Lamora – for your reading pleasure
Thoroughly absorbing, interesting characters who are changed by events that happen to them, great backstory, twisty plot in the front-story leading to nail-biting tension. Highly recommended. Trying not to give away too many spoilers we get to see the formation … Continue reading
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Liz Williams: The Snake Agent – for your reading pleasure
Any book which opens with the main protagonist swinging by his heels in Hell has got my attention from page one. This grabbed me and never let me go. Det. Insp. Chen is the cop whose responsibilities include the underworld … Continue reading
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Georgette Heyer: The Toll Gate for your reading pleasure
Everyone has their favourite Heyer. This is one of mine. When Crazy Jack Staple, lately of Wellington’s army returns to civilian life after the defeat of Napoleon, he finds that there’s not much to satisfy the adrenaline junkie he’s become, … Continue reading
Joe Abercrombie: Best Served Cold – for your reading pleasure
Joe Abercrombie never disappoints. After thoroughly exhausting myself reading his First Law trilogy towards the back end of 2011 it took taken me a while to come to Best Served Cold. I anticipated reading it last year but knew I … Continue reading
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Boy Wizards on the Lam. Three series beginnings – for your reading pleasure
This is the first of my new alternate Tuesday reading posts, so I thought I’d dip back in time to tell you about three books that are each the first in their own well-loved series. They all owe something to … Continue reading
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