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February Online Event

18/01/2023

Last year’s online event days were so much fun that we decided to keep doing them! Join us on Saturday 18th February for a day full of panels, readings, interviews and [...]

BFS Journal Special Issue – Call Extended

19/10/2022

BFS Journal: Fantasy and GamingCall Extended for Marginalized Communities! Thank you to everyone who submitted to the BFS Journal’s Fantasy and Gaming special [...]

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 [...]

Harley Quinn: No Good Dead by Stephanie Phillips, Riley Rossmo, Laura Braga and Jay Leisten from DC Comics #BookReview #HarleyQuinn #GraphicNovel #Comic #Superhero

27/01/2023

The front cover for Harley Quinn No Good Deed. Harley Quinn is falling backwards onto the Gotham City skyline . Iy is night and she is surrounded by white balloons that have big smiles and the word Sorry written on them in red paint.

Harley Quinn: No Good Dead by Stephanie Phillips, Riley Rossmo, Laura Braga and Jay Leisten DC Comics, pb £11.76 Reviewed by Sarah Deeming Harley Quinn is back in Gotham, [...]

An Interview with Adrian Tchaikovsky

24/01/2023

We are absolutely thrilled to announce that we will be interviewing award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky as part of the February online event. Adrian Tchaikovsky is an [...]

Wayward by Hannah Mathewson from @TitanBooks #BookReview #Fantasy

23/01/2023

The front cover for Wayward by Hannah Mathewson. The top half of the cover has a black background. There is the orange outline of a woman standing in a gateway. The gate pillars are either side of her in white. The bottom half of the cover is white with the same image as above but upside down. There is the white outline of a man instead of a woman, and the gate pillars are black. Behind him is the black dome roof of a building.

Wayward by Hannah Mathewson Titan Books, paperback, £8.99 Reviewed by Nadya Mercik Welcome back to London, divided into six magical sections and its political undercurrents! [...]

Mr Breakfast by Jonathon Carroll from @melvillehouse #BookReview #Fantasy

19/01/2023

Mr Breakfast by Jonathon Carroll Melville House Publishing, HB, £20.00 Reviewed by Rym Kechacha Describing a book as a philosophical novel of ideas might induce dread in [...]

EMILY WILDE’S ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FAERIES by Heather Fawcett from @orbitbooks #BookReview #Fantasy #Fae

18/01/2023

The front cover for Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries. At the bottom of the cover is a book which is open half way. Blue and green ivy and red toadstools are coming out from behind the book and more blue and green ivy are coming out from the right hand side. The two threads of plant meet at the top, framing the book's title.

EMILY WILDE’S ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FAERIES by Heather Fawcett. Orbit Books. h/b. £14.99. Reviewed by Elloise Hopkins. Professor Emily Wilde was, in fact, the youngest [...]

Burrowed by Mary Baader Kaley from @angryrobotbooks #BookReview #SciFi #Dystopian

16/01/2023

The front cover for Burrowed by M.B.Kaley. The cover is of a tunnel. There is a woman at the end of the tunnel with her back to the reader. She is looking out at a city in the distance.

Burrowed by Mary Baader Kaley Angry Robot Books, £9.99 Reviewed by Nadya Mercik When I read the blurb of the book, I was quite intrigued. A genetic plague as a premise for [...]

What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher from @TitanBooks #BookReview #Fantasy #Horror

13/01/2023

The front cover for What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher. The cover is a dark green and a hand is reaching up from the bottom of the page. Different types of fungus are growing from the hand.

What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher Titan Books, pbk, £8.99 Reviewed by Ian Hunter Told over 169 pages and 13 chapters, What Moves the Dead is a short novel riffing off [...]

THE HORNED GOD: Weird Tales of the Great God Pan edited by Michael Wheatley from @BL_Publishing #BookReview #ShortStories #Fantasy #Mythology

11/01/2023

The front over for The Horned God edited by Michael Wheatley. The front cover is black with a scene of Pan playing his pipes in front of a full moon in green. At the bottom of the page, there are two dancing women, and there are trees either side of the page.

THE HORNED GOD: Weird Tales of the Great God Pan edited by Michael Wheatley British Library, 319-page p/b, £9.99 Reviewed by Pauline Morgan The Greek God Pan was an entity [...]

Available for Pre-Order The Rush’s Echo by Ginger Smith #BookReview #SciFi

09/01/2023

The front cover for The Rush's Echo by Ginger Smith. There are two white lines running down the middle of the black page. There are a few stars dotted around. There is the head and shoulders of a woman on the upper left hand side of the page. Her face is lit up by a white light and her hair is pulled back in a ponytail. There is a man in the middle of the page at the bottom. He is sitting, his legs pulled up to his chin. There are chains around the man's feet and both the man and woman have white power lines running over their head.

The Rush’s Echo by Ginger Smith Pb, £5.78 Reviewed by Sarah Deeming The crew from the Loshad are back, travelling to the Mudar, hoping for tech that will help them prevent [...]