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Podcast Review: Monstrous Agonies

/ Monstrous Agonies captures the late-night, weekly advice segment of the UK’s only dedicated radio station for people of the night. Each episode features two letters and their responses as listeners write in to ask for advice on all things liminal, from vampires trying to eat more ethically to ghosts whose crushes look right through them.  Winner of the 2022 British Fantasy Award for Best…

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TBR Pile Review: Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil, by Oliver Darkshire

Format: 249 pages, HardcoverPublished: 19th June, 2025 by HodderscapeISBN: 9781399743839 Books can change lives. Magic books can change everything. In a tiny, miserable farm on the edge of the tiny, miserable village of East Grasby, Isabella Nagg is trying to get on with her equally tiny and miserable existence. Dividing her time between enduring her feckless husband, inadequately caring for…

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Audiobook Review: Idolfire, by Grace Curtis

Format: Audible AudioPublished: March 13, 2025 by Hodderscape ‘Times like these you wish you had something to pray to’ Idolfire is an epic sapphic fantasy inspired by the fall of Rome from the author of the Frontier and Floating Hotel . ON ONE SIDE OF THE WORLD, Aleya Ana-Ulai is desperate for a chance. Her family have written her off as a mistake, but she’s determined to prove every last one…

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Pen & Sword TBR Pile Review: Sex & Sexuality in Medieval England, by Kathryn Warner

Format: 171 pages, HardcoverPublished: August 30, 2022 by Pen & Sword HistoryISBN: 9781399098328 (ISBN10: 1399098322) Sex and Sexuality in Medieval England allows the reader a peek beneath the bedsheets of our medieval ancestors, in an informative and fascinating look at sex and sexuality in England from 1250 to 1450. It examines the prevailing attitudes towards male and female sexual behaviour,…

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TBR Pile Review: Natives - Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire, by Akala

Format: 342 pages, PaperbackPublished: March 21, 2019 by Two RoadsISBN: 9781473661233 (ISBN10: 1473661234) From the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was white, to his first encounters with racist teachers – race and class have shaped Akala’s life and outlook. In this unique book he takes his own experiences and widens them out to look at the…

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TBR Pile Review: Into The Drowning Deep, by Mira Grant

Published: Nov 16 2017Pages: 496Publisher: OrbitISBN: 9780356508108 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR MIRA GRANT RETURNS WITH A RAZOR-SHARP TALE OF THE HORRORS THAT LIE BENEATH . . .Seven years ago the Atargatis set off on a voyage to the Mariana Trench to film a mockumentary, bringing to life ancient sea creatures of legend.It was lost at sea with all hands. Some have called it a tragedy;…

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Humber SFF Solar punk anthology

Announcing the HSFF Anthology Shellie Horst runs Humber SFF. There’s an announcement I think some of my local SFF writers might be interested in.

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Promo Post - FATE: Tales of History, Mystery and Magic by Various

If you had a crystal ball to predict what lay ahead, would you be tempted to use it? Or would you leave the future to the turn of Fate? Tales of Variety. Tales of History, Mystery and Magic – some comprising just one of these popular fiction genres, others, a mild mixture of all three. Perhaps you prefer historical fiction rather than a story about magic or fantasy? Maybe you enjoy exploring new…

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TBR Pile Review: The Judas Blossom, by Stephen Aryan

Release Date2023-07-11Formats: Ebook, PaperbackEBook ISBN11th July 2023 | 9781915202529 | epub & mobi | £4.99/$6.99/$7.99Paperback ISBN11th July 2023 | 9781915202192 | Paperback Book I of The Nightingale and the Falcon 1260, Persia: Due to the efforts of the great Genghis Khan, the Mongol Empire covers a vast portion of the known world. In the shadow of his grandfather, Hulagu Khan, ruler of…

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Review: Named, by Camilla Balshaw

Bedford Square Publishers05 June 2025£18.99978-1-8350-1071-6Hardback The bookOur names are a shadow we carry around with us. They are part of who we are. Our names are a marker of our self-identity and our sense of self. Our names have the power to shock. They have the power to heal, and they have the power to trigger conversations around race, class, social mobility and belonging. But what is a…

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Review: The Spirit of the Rainforest, by Dr Rosa Vasquez Espinoza

22 May 2025 | £22 | Hardback | Gaia Before you step into the jungle, there are a few things you need to know…Join scientist Dr Rosa Vásquez Espinoza as she uncovers one of the most unexplored regions on the planet. Dr Rosa is no stranger to the Amazon. Growing up with the rainforest as her back garden, she learnt the lessons of the rainforest from her grandmother, a native healer in natural…

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Blog tour calendar: Named, by Camilla Balshaw

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Blog tour calendar: The Spirit of the Rainforest, by Dr. Rosa Vasquez Espinoza

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Podcast Review: The Holmwood Foundation, episodes 1 - 3

TAGLINE:  A Secretive organisation. Two antagonistic colleagues. Dracula’s severed head… DESCRIPTION: The Holmwood Foundation is a bi-weekly Found-Footage Horror-Fiction Podcast created by Fio Trethewey (Big Finish: Gallifrey War Room, 18th Wall Productions) and Georgia Cook (Big Finish: The Eleventh Doctor Chronicles, Gallifrey War Room, BBC Books, The Dracula Daily Sketch Collection). It is a…

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Review: How To Kill A Witch, by Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi

Thursday, May 15, 2025£20.009781800961883History Feminism &feminist theory WitchcraftHardback320 pages DescriptionAs a woman, if you lived in Scotland in the 1500s, there was a very good chance that you, or someone you knew, would be tried as a witch. Witch hunts ripped through the country for over 150 years, with at least 4,000 accused, and with many women’s fates sealed by a grizzly execution…

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Blog tour calendar: How to Kill a Witch, by Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi

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Reblog: Labour Were Also A Mistake, by Politically Enraged

Labour Were Also A Mistake.