Forget the cackling green hag in The Wizard of Oz, forget Samantha from Bewitched. Real witches are nothing, NOTHING like this. For years real witches have hidden their powers, afraid of being persecuted. They have integrated so well into the community, you could have a witch living right next door and never know about it….
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Review – Flashforward byRobert Sawyer
Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Gollancz Publication date: 09 Oct 2009 ISBN: 978-0575091016 First Line – “Day One: Tuesday, April 21, 2009” Suddenly everyone in the world loses consciousness for two minutes. Planes fall from the sky, there are millions of car crashes, millions die. And when everyone comes round they have had a glimpse of…
One – Conrad Williams
This is the United Kingdom, but it’s no country you know. No place you ever want to see, even in the howling, shuttered madness of your worst dreams. You survived. One man. You walk because you have to. You have no choice. At the end of this molten road, running along the spine of a…
Cross Stitch – Diana Gabaldon
The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon–when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach–an “outlander”–in a Scotland torn by war and raiding…
The Queen’s Fool – Philippa Gregory
A stunning novel set in the Tudor court, as the rivalry between Queen Mary and her half-sister Elizabeth is played out against a background of betrayal, conflict and passion. The savage rivalry of the daughters of Henry VIII, Mary Tudor and Elizabeth, mirrors that of their mothers, Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn. Each will…
The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite – Beatrice Colin
As the clock chimed the turn of the twentieth century, Lilly Nelly Aphrodite took her first breath. Born to a cabaret dancer and soon orphaned in a scandalous double murder, Lilly finds refuge at a Catholic orphanage, coming under the wing of the, at times, severe Sister August, the first in a string of lost…
The Quiet Place – Richard Maynard
Set in the future, this story concerns a group of astronauts who return to Earth after what they believe is 60 years. They do in fact arrive centuries after they set off, to a land of savage hunting tribes whose only link with the lost culture is a crude version of former language. ——————————— I…
Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse
Famine, death, war, and pestilence: the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon – these are our guides through the Wastelands…From the Book of “Revelations to The Road Warrior”; from “A Canticle for Leibowitz to The Road”, storytellers have long imagined the end of the world, weaving tales of catastrophe, chaos, and calamity….
The Dechronization of Sam Magruder – George Gaylord Simpson
The Dechronization of Sam Magruder is one of the stranger works of fiction that has appeared in recent years. Its author, George Gaylord Simpson, was widely regarded as the greatest paleontologist of the twentieth century. He died in 1984, but the manuscript of this intriguing novella about a twenty-second-century scientist was not found by his…
Betrayel At Falador – T S Church
With over 100 million active accounts, RuneScape is widely recognised as the world s most popular MMORPG. Betrayal at Falador is the first ever tie-in novel to RuneScape. In the kingdom of Asgarnia, though the Knights of Falador defend the land and protect the people, they face threats that clamor from all sides and from…