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REVIEWS : Books, films, etc. What I thought & why you might like them.
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BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN by M.L.Wang (BOOK REVIEW)
Wang weaves plot, prose and characters into a compelling narrative which challenges and embraces what it means to be human, and in particular what it means to be a ‘good’ human.
REPORTS: Places I’ve been & events that I’ve seen.
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DOORS INTO THE DARK: A Day of Weird Fiction (CONFERENCE REPORT 26/9/2026)
On a sunny September Saturday I headed down for a first visit to the still very fresh new Seamus Heaney Centre on University Street in Belfast for a day of exploring multiple facets of weird fiction. I took phone notes on the panels I attended and they form the basis of this rather long post,
REVEALS: Interviews, writing, covers & other news.
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AS WE FALL THROUGH TIME by Claire North (AUTHOR INTERVIEW)
Claire North has kindly joined me at fantasy-reviews today to be my inaugural author interview and to talk about their fantastic latest release “As We Fall Through Time” and other writerly things.
RANTS: This is where I, or the books I read, get spicily political!
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Who should be banned from using social media?
This post is inspired by my reading of Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier and it will – in part – be a review of that book. The book was first published in 2018 in the midst of Trump 1.0 but at a time before Musk took over…
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