Writing and reviews with an environmental, science fiction, and fantasy touch
Jada Johnson, International Girl Detective sounded like a promising MG read. And it is! I’d like to thank NetGalley and the publishers for allowing me an ARC. Jada Johnson, International Girl Detective: The Case of the Emperor’s Scepter by Carris
Conor Kelly’s Guide to Ireland’s Ancient Places has been lurking in my iPad for several years, waiting to get onto my official TBR on Goodreads. This is not the usual way my book lists work. Consequently this is not the
The Jewel of Peru is book one of an intended MG series by Sharon Skretting, entitled The Ultimate Treasure Chest. I’ve taken the liberty of detaching it from its series name to fit in my Alphabet Soup reading challenge for
Dying Fall is number 5 in Elly Griffiths’ Ruth Galloway series, and it’s a cracking read. I discovered books 6 and 7 waiting on my shelf, purchased at Noirwich (when I met the author). It’s fair to say I’m a big
N is for Nevermore, the planet central to Judith Tarr’s splendid book Forgotten Suns. Saturday is book review day, even during the April A to Z, but I’ll be slanting it towards my theme of world-building, and in addition, I
I’m very pleased to include a book review of City of Gold on Carolyn Arnold’s Blog Tour today, with thanks to Lori at Escape with Dollycas for doing all the work! What you get is a near-perfect mix…heart-pounding escapades and
Picking up The Janus Stone was such a relief – I was reading natural English with a sense of place that made me feel fully at home again. It was after the Victorian style of The Princess and Curdie and
I’m a little late with the Book Blast for this title, but the giveaway is still live, so I hope Renee and Fiona don’t mind too much. It’s one I’ve been looking forward to reading for some time, and I
The Crossing Places opens on an archaelogical dig where the protagonist, Dr Ruth Galloway, discovers a body – but it is an Iron Age body preserved in the peat of the saltmarsh. Not all the bodies in this book are