Body Work – Rivers of London Graphic Novel Review
Alister Davison
I was raised on a diet of comic-book adaptations. Back when home video was in its infancy, they were the only way to ‘watch’ a film again, or in some…
Alister Davison
The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers
The Anubis Gates was first released in 1983, and I was fortunate enough to pick up a paperback copy at the time from my local library. Back then, I would…
Fables, Vol. 1: Legends in Exile by Bill Willingham
Inspired by the post about graphic novels and fantasy from a few weeks ago, I thought it would be good to revisit the beginnings of a series I started reading…
Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings
If you’d asked me ten years ago what I thought of fantasy, I’d have told you I wasn’t a fan anymore. That’s changed now (thanks to Abercrombie and Lynch), but…
The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker
Time flies: It’s thirty years since Clive Barker’s first novel, The Damnation Game, was published. A tale of Faustian proportions, it – along with his short story collections The Books…
The Vagrant by Peter Newman
Peter Newman’s debut novel, The Vagrant, tells of a man who “friendless and alone…walks a desolate, war-torn landscape”. After recently enjoying the latest Mad Max movie, I was immediately struck…
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
This year marks the 150th anniversary of Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll’s tale of a girl who follows a white rabbit down a hole in the ground and finds…
Swan Song by Robert McCammon
Back in the 1980s, when the Cold War was at its height, the spectre of nuclear war loomed large, and this was reflected in the fiction of the time. Some…
The Death House by Sarah Pinborough
With a title like The Death House, you’d be forgiven for thinking this was one of those gory shlock horrors written towards the end of the twentieth century. Unusually for…
The Year of the Ladybird by Graham Joyce
It is 1976, the hottest summer in England since records began, and a young man called David is about to start work at a holiday camp close to the seaside…
The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
My hardback cover of The Queen of the Tearling is emblazoned with a bright red sticker telling me it’s: “SOON TO BE A MAJOR FILM starring Emma Watson”. On the…
Shadowmarch by Tad Williams
This review’s been a long time coming. It’s almost a year to the day since a friend loaned me his copy of Shadowmarch and suggested I read it and, in…