Blogs about Fiction books

British author Samantha Harvey has been named winner of the 2024 Booker Prize, with her novel, Orbital, published by Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Penguin Books. I don’t know how many novels are set on …

Love is sacrifice, sacred land life-affirming (Gunnison River Valley, Colorado; 1948—1970): Crying can soothe us. All the more reason to let Shelley Read take you on this absolutely beautiful and sad journey. “There is a …

The long-awaited day has arrived! It's been a while since we've had a Release Day celebration for a new Furrowed Middlebrow title, but as of today Eleanor Farjeon's delightful Miss Granby's Secret is officially out …

I’ve had an email from a setup called Feedspot which says that Great War Fiction is ranked second among military book blogs. Which is very flattering, though a bit bothering. I’ve neglected the blog horribly …

I disappeared again – I’m sorry. I’m trying to decide whether I’m done with this whole blogging malarky – there are aspects I miss – but I get overwhelmed with the effort it takes me …

Here in the United States, it’s still hard to process the election news and we know many members of our community are terrified of what’s to come. Trust us when we say, we are right …

As might have been obvious from the picture in my end of October post, I have been spending a little time recently rediscovering the writing of William S. Burroughs. His shorter works have turned up …

Having a fluey cold masquerading as Covid is horrible, but it does keep me reading in my chair for longer than I might normally endure (I fidget). Much sooner than expected I finished Richard Buckle’s …

Here at SLM, we hope that this list of some of the beautiful and important work from our team and contributors in recent months can help us connect to our community and move forward.Publications, Interviews, …

I wrote a bit about the war of the zettlekasten as my last entry, and have been keeping two separate ones; one is a set of notes on Philosophy, thus far really just notes and …

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The Mad Earl’s Bride is a novella I wrote for a bridal anthology. It reappeared a few years later in another collection, then, eventually, all by itself as an eBook.This story, which was originally released …

Victory for the Sewing Factory Girls by Posy Lovell This is a powerful novel set during the First World War, in 1916, but makes very few passing references to the ground battle in France. This …

i leaped, feeling the rush of wind against my bare back as i slid cleanly into the pool. another perfect dive. i let my head gently ease above the water, resting for a moment. then, …

A recent collection of Lovecraftian stories I got is The Doom That Came to Dunwich, subtitled “Selected Stories of Lovecraftian Mystery. Edited by Philip Harbottle, it collects nine stories by Richard A. Lupoff (1935-2020). Harbottle …

Book Review by Alice :This is the story of three sisters and their pastor father who relocate to the tiny, isolated rural parish of Garth in Garthsdale. ‘A handful of grey houses, old and small …

The Darkest Night – Barbara Nadel Picking up after the pandemic, and picking up some of the crime family characters we met in our last outing with retired Inspector Ikmen, Inspectors Süleyman and Kerim are …

In 1942, the literary critic and Princeton graduate, Edmund Wilson, then forty-seven, made friends with a scholar of Russian literature slightly younger than himself, Helen Muchnic. Born in Baku in 1902, Helen emigrated to the …

This week’s topic for Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl) is: “Destination Titles (titles with name of places in them. These places can be real or fictional).” Here are ten books with …

For those unfamiliar, Writing Month was proposed as an alternative to NaNoWriMo. There's even a site dedicated to it and all, that allows you to track your word count and other goals. You can even …