Are you excited about Fantasycon? Here at BFS, we cannot wait to see you all there, and to spend the weekend with our lovely Guests of Honour. This week, we’re delighted to share with you that our second Guest of Honour is Priya Sharma! Priya Sharma’s fiction has appeared in… Read More »Fantasycon Guest of Honour
EMILY WILDE’S MAP OF THE OTHERLANDS by Heather Fawcett. Orbit Books. h/b. £20. Reviewed by Elloise Hopkins. Professor Emily Wilde, always a scholar first, is preoccupied with her latest project – to create a map of the faerie worlds she knows of and record their known entrances and secrets. It… Read More »Emily Wilde
THE EIGHT REINDEER OF THE APOCALYPSE By Tom Holt Orbit, pb, £9.19 Reviewed by Christine Downes The first thing I want to make clear is that I have never read a book by Tom Holt. This is my first venture into his work after a great many people have enthusiastically… Read More »8 Reindeer
Relight My Fire by C.K. McDonnell Bantum, hb, £17.47 Reviewed by Sarah Deeming All over Manchester, people are displaying curious magical traits, flying, and spontaneous combustion without death, but when they are questioned about it, these victims remember nothing except going home early and watching a film. At the same… Read More »Relight My Fire
IN AN ORCHARD GROWN FROM ASH by Rory Power. Titan Books. h/b. £15.99. Reviewed by Elloise Hopkins. Snow falls even as spring draws to a close. Rhea has sacrificed her consort, just like always, so why does it still snow? Alexandros, the second youngest of the Argyros siblings, finds himself… Read More »In an Orchard
All Souls Lost by Dan Moren All Souls Lost by Dan Moren JAB Books, pb, £15.20 Reviewed by Sarah Deeming Mike Lucifer, a private investigator of supernatural cases, has been MIA for two years after the untimely death of his partner, hiding on a beach getting drunk. But his money… Read More »All Souls Lost
THE GOD OF LOST WORDS By A.J. Hackwith from @TitanBooks #BookReview #Fantasy THE GOD OF LOST WORDS By A.J. Hackwith Titan Books, s/b, £8.99 Reviewed by Matthew Johns The final book in the Hell’s Library trilogy, The God of Lost Words, takes the reader on a journey through heaven, hell… Read More »THE GOD OF LOST WORDS By A.J. Hackwith
Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle from @TitanBooks #BookReview #Horror #Fantasy Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle Titan Books, pb, £8.99 Reviewed by Sarah Deeming Rose Darling is just an ordinary twenty-year-old. She loves her family and her church and hanging out with her friends. Completely normal. But she also vomits flies,… Read More »Camp Damascus
Grab your ticket here Our lovely interviewee is C.J. Cooke, author of The Ghost Woods, and will be interviews by BFS Chair, Shona Kinsella. CJ Cooke, also known as Carolyn Jess-Cooke, grew up on a council estate in Belfast, Northern Ireland, at the height of the Troubles. She started writing… Read More »BFS Online: Inspiration –Interview with C.J. Cooke
Every Friday, we meet a member of the BFS and peer deep into their soul (or, at least, a form they filled out). This week, it’s Claire Cronshaw’s turn: editor, coach, course leader, Cumbrian-in-Lancashire.