Blogs about Fiction books

Canadian actor and director Megan Park’s latest feature, My Old Ass, trailer, would be a sure bet to win movie title of the year, should such an award exist. Otherwise, My Old Ass is 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 …

My apologies that this blog has got a bit creaky and cobwebby of late. There has been a lot going on (mostly positive—and indeed, a very interesting personal announcement will follow here in due course…). …

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 …

Last year’s Booker Winner Prophet Song has been on my radar to read ever since it was longlisted last year. Typically, I have only got around to buying myself a copy recently. I thought it …

We’ve made it to another Friday and it’s time to celebrate! In today’s post you’ll find out the top 3 sapphic books with the most clicks this week. Lesfic author Edale Lane is our 5 …

Back at the end of 2022 I read a most marvellous book which I’d picked up by chance in the local Oxfam charity bookshop: “Pereira Maintains” by Antonio Tabucchi. It ended up being in the …

Suzy McKee Charnas’ novel The Vampire Tapestry was published in 1980, and won the Nebula for Best Novella in 1981, with a clutch of Finalist listings to add to that burnishment. A year ago there …

Vanessa Hua’s flash “Forecast” shows us how destruction of one kind leads to another, a cascade of disappearing. Here she shares just one thing about the piece:“My story was inspired in part by a conversation …

Assuming all goes well, I will be re-entering school in the fall, at my ancient age, to study philosophy. The road that got me here isn’t uninteresting, but it’s not my primary focus for this …

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The Two Nerdy History Girls Ride Again 2024-07-15, courtesy Meena Jain and the Ashland Public Library Once again historical novelist Susan Holloway Scott and I had a great time talking nerdy history with our most …

Felicity’s War by Jean Fullerton This engaging and well written novel is a fascinating insight into the wartime progress of a determined woman and a dedicated police officer as expectations of both change dramatically. Jean …

Storm and FlameMallory Wanless(Enchanted, #1)Publication date: September 22nd 2022Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult Goodreads / Amazon / Barnes & Noble / iBooks / KoboElena has always been a disappointment. Her magic is practically non-existent and now, …

For PulpFest 2024, we have The Pulpster #33, the convention book. This one comes in at 64 pages. Also, this will be my second year attending PulpFest. This time, the anniversaries are the Spicy pulps …

Book Review by George Simmers: Maurice Walsh (1879 -1964) was a popular Irish writer, and this is a book of five interlocking stories, all of them set in Ireland of the early twenties; most of …

The Serpent’s Mark – S. W. Perry Novel No 2 in the Jackdaw series: crime, treason and general not-good-do-ery in Elizabethan England. When Robert Cecil asks a favour of Dr Nicholas Shelby – to check …

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 …

After finishing Sally Smith’s A Case of Mice and Murder I was delighted to find that it’s the start of a new historical mystery series, which is great news as this first book is excellent. …

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