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May 4, 2021

Sistersong by Lucy Holland

Reviewed by Annabel Lucy Holland’s impeccably researched novel combines the story of a 19th Century murder ballad, ‘The Two Sisters’ with Dark Ages post-Arthurian…

April 29, 2021

The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox

Reviewed by Max Dunbar In Lords and Ladies, his Faerie novel, Terry Pratchett quotes an old folk rhyme: My mother said I never shouldPlay…

July 14, 2020

The King of Elfland’s Daughter by Lord Dunsany

Review by Helen Parry I first read The King of Elfland’s Daughter five years ago, but this ‘fine, strange, almost forgotten novel’, as Neil…

January 30, 2020

Of Cats and Elfins by Sylvia Townsend Warner

Reviewed by Harriet Just over a year ago I reviewed the newly published Handheld Press edition of Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Kingdoms of Elfin, a…

Spinning silver naomi novik
November 20, 2018

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

Reviewed by David Harris This was the first time I’d read a book by Novik. Her Temeraire series and Uprooted (reviewed for Shiny by Sakura here) have received lots…

June 3, 2016

The Life of Elves by Muriel Barbery

Translated by Alison Anderson Reviewed by Annabel If like me, you read and loved Muriel Barbery’s bestselling novel The Elegance of the Hedgehog, which blended…

October 22, 2015

Witches of Lychford by Paul Cornell

Reviewed by David Harris I’d been eagerly waiting for this book. Cornell has recently published two volumes in an urban fantasy series, The Shadow Police,…

July 31, 2015

Uprooted by Naomi Novik

Reviewed by Sakura Gooneratne Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. He doesn’t devour…

April 30, 2015

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Reviewed by Jane Carter I have a very clear memory of visiting a bookshop, a good few years ago. I had a birthday book…

April 7, 2015

The Vagrant by Peter Newman

Reviewed by David Harris ‘The Vagrant is his name’ runs the strapline for this book. ‘He has no other.’ In fact, the titular character…

October 9, 2014

Age of Iron by Angus Watson

Reviewed by Kathleen Holly Marsh Age of Iron by Angus Watson is the first book in a trilogy giving an entertaining but gripping account of…

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