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An ambitious and imaginative take on Earth’s past and future, in which magic and art shade into one another as the characters come into their own A Dawn Obsolete, the first “folio” of debut author Jaseon R. G. B.’s planned seven-installment series, The Light Apparent, has the potential to become a cult classic. The flipside […]

The water is at his shoulders and the smog is spilling over the valley rim when Vox finally stops mocking her. All afternoon he has lounged in the stone cage Lirien raised around him, napping, telling her that her bunker will fail and her lake will fail and that she has no idea how anyone […]

It is a quarter to four in the morning and Piper Black has climbed into her father’s bed because tomorrow is the last day of preschool, and after that there will be no more Ms. Hallie. Beau, who has to be up in forty-five minutes anyway, tells her about the day his own father made […]

An enticing double mystery with paranormal elements set in the New England summer Loretta Marion’s Haunted Bluffs series of standalone mystery novels set on Cape Cod is now in its third instalment with Legacy Of The Bluffs. It extends a warm welcome to first time readers and a real pleasure to returning fans. Cassandra Mitchell […]

New town, new school, new powers. Learning to navigate two worlds is the least of Ellie’s problems in this thrilling YA sci-fi. Settling into a new school is stressful enough. 15-year-old Ellie does not need the added pressure of glowing hands.  Ellie is used to starting afresh. With a dad in the military, she’s done […]

The briefing room has seen murder boards, autopsy photos and serial killers’ letters. This afternoon it gets a lasagna and a slideshow. Cassie’s grandmother has commandeered the screen to present her case: exhibit one is a ball of dough two FBI agents kneaded together at Thanksgiving, exhibit two is a red onion sliced down the […]

A fourteen-year-old boy escapes the claustrophobic 1960s Midwest in pursuit of the unfettered American Dream and a wider selection of footwear in this impressive literary novel. Henry Cato knows his Mother’s love well. He knows the sting of her switch, the slam of her cellar door, and her generous words of vitriol and admonishments. Governed […]

Kafkaesque and self-referential, this sophisticated collection of short fiction hits home hard. In The Museum Of Lost Things, Dennis Pahl shows interest in both straight realism and the unconventional, surprising, and fantastic. An academic who has previously published on nineteenth-century American literature, Pahl brings heaps of knowledge to bear in shaping his own fictional situations. […]