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FantasyCon 2022

11/07/2022

Fantasycon 2022 was being organised by Lee Harris, who sadly had to cancel because of financial issues. The BFS committee have been hard at work for the last week working out [...]

EGM

27/05/2022

The Executive Committee have decided that it is necessary to call an Extraordinary General Meeting in order to update members on matters that affect the society and to put [...]

Volunteer Roles

27/10/2021

Volunteers Wanted! We have a number of volunteer roles and projects that we would love to have your help with. If we do not get applicants for a role, we will be looking to [...]

TOGETHER WE BURN by Isabel Ibañez from @TitanBooks #BookReview #Fantasy

12/08/2022

The front cover for Together We Burn. There is a red dragon in the top half of the page to the left, and there is a red woman in the bottom right. Between the two are wisps of red smoke.

TOGETHER WE BURN by Isabel Ibañez. Titan Books. p/b. £8.99. Reviewed by Elloise Hopkins. Santivilla, home of Flamenco and home to Zarela Zalvidar, daughter of the most [...]

THE COWARD by @SteveAryan from @angryrobotbooks #BookReview #Fantasy

10/08/2022

The front cover for The Coward. The cover is of a dark night sky dotted with stars. The black outline of a mountain range is beneath the sky and there is the white outline of a person. A gold sword hangs in the sky directly above the figure.

THE COWARD by Stephen Aryan. Angry Robot Books. p/b. £9.99. Reviewed by Elloise Hopkins. Kell Kressia may have been Slayer of the Ice Lich and Saviour of the Five Kingdoms, [...]

Meet Our Authors: Robin C.M. Duncan

09/08/2022

The cover for The Mandroid Murders. Three people are looking out of a window at a crater. In the middle of the crater is a city under a dome.

Robin C.M. Duncan is a Scot born and living in Glasgow. A Civil Engineer by profession, he has been writing for decades, but ‘seriously’ only for the last ten [...]

THE WHITE DEVIL by Paul Hoffman from Penguin #BookReview #Althistory

08/08/2022

The front cover for The White Devil. The back ground is red with two white stripes painted down it and one blue one with four stars going down the middle. The bottom third of the book is black with the book title in white, and there is the white outline of a man walking where the red and black lines meet.

THE WHITE DEVIL by Paul Hoffman Penguin, h/b, £20.00 Reviewed by Nigel Robert Wilson The White Devil is the fourth volume in a sequence of novels about Thomas Cale, a man [...]

The Book of Gothel by @MaryMcMyne from @orbitbooks #BookReview #fantasy #fairytaleretelling

05/08/2022

The front cover for The Book of Gothel. A white tower stands in the middle of a dense forest with a long plait of red hair falling from a window at the top to the ground.

The Book of Gothel by Mary McMyne Orbit, pb, £7.99 Reviewed by Rym Kechacha Rapunzel as a tale was collected and written by the Brothers Grimm, though variations of the [...]

SLEEPING BEAUTIES vol 2 By Stephen King and Owen King from @IDWPublishing #BookReview #Horror #GraphicNovel

04/08/2022

The front cover for Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King. The front cover is grey with a dark moth in the middle, wings outstretched. Plant roots are growing out of the moth's wings and antennae.

SLEEPING BEAUTIES vol 2 By Stephen King and Owen King IDW Publishing, hb, £11.69 Reviewed by Matthew Johns The women of Dooling and the rest of the world are falling asleep [...]

QUICKSILVER By Dean Koontz #BookReview #Horror #Fantasy

03/08/2022

The front cover for Quicksilver. The cover is silver. The word Quicksilver is a thick typeset through which we can see a sun set and some dessert plants. The letter I in silver is the side outline of a man.

QUICKSILVER By Dean Koontz Thomas & Mercer, s/b, £4.99 Reviewed by Matthew Johns Dean Koontz is somewhat of a legendary author in the literary world – with many [...]

Out Today! Real Sugar is Hard to Find by @sim_kern #BookReview #clifi #dystopian #shortstories

01/08/2022

The front cover for Real Sugar is Hard to Find. A person wearing a gas mask is stood in a destroyed landscape. Large machines walk in the background. The figure is holding a cake under a cake dome. The colours are muted and yellowed.

Real Sugar is Hard to Find by Sim Kern Android press, ebook, £8.00 Reviewed by Melody Bowles In some ways, Real Sugar is Hard to Find is classic cli-fi but does it with [...]

GHOST: 100 Stories to Read With the Lights On, edited by Louise Welsh from @HoZ_Books

29/07/2022

The front cover for Ghosts. The cover is a navy blue with a repeating motif of a light blue owl with shining blue eyes on a candelabra.

GHOST: 100 Stories to Read With the Lights On, edited by Louise Welsh Head of Zeus, p/b, £18.00 Reviewed by Pauline Morgan Most people would regard the term Ghost as [...]

Golden Jubilee Event Day 3!

28/07/2022

Join us for the third in our series of online event days celebrating 50 years of the BFS. As with the previous two days, we’ll have a mix of panels, readings and [...]