Book Review: ‘The Doors of Eden’ by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Doors of Eden, by Adrian Tchaikovsky, published by Pan Macmillan, is a fascinating and extraordinary work exploring the quirks of evolution and the possibility of multiple parallel earths. In an...
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Book Review: ‘Piranesi’ by Susanna Clarke
The new novel Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke, best known as the author of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, is a winding, twisting tale leading readers down strange paths and into a mysterious world....
View ArticleBook Review: The Wintermen III: At The End of the World by Brit Griffin
The Wintermen III: At The End of the World by Brit Griffen, from Latitude 46 Publishing, is the third instalment, and conclusion, of the author’s dystopian climate change science fiction series. Set...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘Voting Is Your Super Power!’ Edited by Craig Yoe
Released in the month before the presidential election, Voting Is Your Super Power! (Yoe Books/Clover Press) collects a series of didactic promotional giveaway comics from the fifties and sixties...
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Graphic Novel Review: ‘Okay, Universe’ by Plante and Cote-Lacroix from D+Q
Okay, Universe by Valerie Plante and Delphie Cote-Lacroix from Drawn+Quarterly tells the story of Plante’s journey into the world of politics. Long before she was the first woman elected Mayor of...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘The Ice House’ by Tim Clare
The Ice House by Tim Clare, published by Canongate Press, is the sequel to his book The Honours. While many of the same characters from the first book appear, there is one tiny caveat, it is now 70...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘The Popol Vuh’– Michael Bazzett
The Popol Vuh, translated from the K’iche’ by Michael Bazzett and published by Milkweed Press, is further proof, for those who still need it, of the splendid and thriving Indigenous cultures of South...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘Reynard the Fox’ Anne Louise Avery
Reynard The Fox, as retold by Anne Louis Avery, and published by the Bodleian Library, is a wonderful trip into the surreal world of the animal kingdom that reigned in what is now Holland and Belgium...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘The Fiends of Nightmaria”by Steven Erikson
In the novella The Fiends of Nightmaria, published by Macmillan, Steven Erikson brings back two of his favoured villainous characters, necromancers Bauchelain and Korbal Broach. First introduced to...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy: The Complete Collection...
The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy: The Complete Collection, published by Pan Macmillan, contains all five books of the infamous Douglas Adams trilogy. This special 42nd anniversary edition, (and if...
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Comic Review: ‘Heaven No Hell’ by DeForge from Drawn+Quarterly
Heaven No Hell by Michael DeForge from Drawn & Quarterly is an anthology of stories that defy genre. DeForge has been at work for years creating graphic novels such as Big Kids giving a wild trip...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘The Wild Fox of Yemen’ by Threa Almontaser
The Wild Fox of Yemen by Threa Almontaser, published by Gray Wolf Press, is a collection of poetry that gathers the reader up and into itself, and immerses them in the poet’s world. The world of a...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘A Land Like You’ by Tobie Nathan
In A Land Like You, published by Seagull Books, author Tobie Nathan takes us to an Egypt that will be unfamiliar to most readers. First the book is told mainly from the perspective of Cairo’s Jewish...
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Graphic Novel Review: ‘Cyclopedia Exotica’ by Aminder Dhaliwal from...
Cyclopedia Exotica by Aminder Dhaliwal and published by Drawn and Quarterly is a compilation of Dhaliwal’s webcomic of the same name serialized on Instagram. Like Dhaliwal’s earlier work Woman World,...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘A Master of Djinn’ by P. Djeli Clark
A Master of Djinn, published by Tor books, by P. Djeli Clark is a fantastical trip to Cairo Egypt circa 1913. However, this isn’t a Cairo anyone will recognize from history. For in the late 1800s the...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘The Library of the Dead’ by T.L. Huchu
The Library of the Dead by T. L Huchu, published by Macmillan Books, is the first book in the very promising “Edinburgh Nights” Young Adult dystopian future series. While the genre has been mined to...
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Graphic Novel Review: ‘My Begging Chart’ by Keiler Roberts from Drawn and...
My Begging Chart by Keiler Roberts from Drawn and Quarterly captures everyday life so readily that it is a visual diary. Already a prize-winner with the Ignatz and Slate, Roberts continues to show the...
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Graphic Novel Review: ‘The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume IV: The...
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Tempest by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill, published by Top Shelf, brings the saga-of-sagas to a close. Two decades ago, the already legendary comics creators...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘Slipping’ by Mohamed Kehir
Reading Slipping by Mohamed Kheir (published by Two Line Press) is like falling into a dream. Not only does it capture the rather ethereal feel of the dream state it has the disjointed landscape of...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘The Brotherhood’ by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
The Brotherhood, by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr (Europa Editions) is, on the surface, the story of one town taken over by an oppressive religious military force. However, its more than just your standard...
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