Sir Terry Pratchett is my favourite author, the Discworld my favourite series, and the City Watch books my favourite subset of those novels. Snuff, therefore, had a high bar to …
Book Review: Snuff (Discworld #39) by Terry Pratchett
Fiction
Book Review: Galaxy in Flames by Ben Counter
Let’s just start with a little context setting, given that this is book III in the series. If you’ve read my review of Horus Rising, you’ll know what first enticed …
Book Review: The Last Murder at the End of the World, by Stuart Turton
Stuart Turton writes books that are difficult to review. They’re incredibly easy to enjoy (see my review of The Devil and the Dark Water); very difficult to explain. What can I tell …
Book Review: The Warm Hands of Ghosts, by Katherine Arden
Stories really are a funny thing, aren’t they? It’s thanks to stories like The Warm Hands of Ghosts that I can vicariously experience some of the worst things that have …
Book Review: False Gods, by Graham McNeill
False Gods had a big set of shoes to fill. The sequel to Dan Abnett’s Horus Rising continues the story of Horus, the Warmaster, as he struggles under the weight …
Book Review: Horus Rising, by Dan Abnett
I’ve been a Warhammer fan for decades but have never really cared much about the lore. However, eventually curiosity got the better of me and I decided I wanted to …
Should Spines be getting authors’ backs up?
Spines came to my attention born aloft on a wave of anger. This new publisher has claimed they will ‘disrupt’ the publishing industry using AI. Obviously, the authors I follow …
Writing…just for the hell of it
The other day I was playing with my daughter. She had instructed me to help her lay some Paw Patrol playing cards in a path across the house. I have …
Protect your drive to create at all costs
Trying to write a book? Well I hope you’re not committing any of the writing sins on this list as long as my leg. And I trust you’ve remembered the …
What makes a good opening sentence?
‘It was the day my grandmother exploded.’ I haven’t gotten around to reading Iain Banks’ The Wasp Factory yet, but that opening line (read somewhere else) will stay with me …