Like your classic mythology with a Doctor Who twist? Then you’re going to love this collection of well-known myths, rewritten with a distinctly Whovian flavour. Greek mythology fans are going to be particular chuffed, as…
Nigel Kneale got the name ‘Quatermass’ from a family of fruit merchants he found in the telephone book. I did not know that. I wonder if their fruit was oddly-shaped? I wonder if it was intelligent? I wonder…
I know what you’re thinking. A multi-Doctor story featuring all twelve incarnations, several companions AND Petronella Osgood? Why, this is the sort of gold-plated fanwank usually reserved for important anniversaries! And top title too. ‘Paper…
Anyone growing up on a council estate in Cardiff in the 90’s, would find the subject matter Dan Robinson has tackled in his first novel, all too familiar. Harsh lessons-yes. Tough decisions-of course, but there’s…
When writing my own books, not reviewing those written by others, I try to bring home what it says on the tin – unpretentious entertainment. Well, okay, it doesn’t actually say unpretentious entertainment, and between you and…
Themed short story collections are everywhere, aren’t they? Traditional publishers’ shelf space, both physical and digital, squeezed in a pincer movement from burgeoning small press titles and the rise of charity compilations more professional and…
When I originally came up with the faction powers for the hexarchate, my thought was that yes, everything was magic, but I wasn\’t diverging very far from real life. Wait a second, you say. The…
Halloween 2016 was a little different to previous Halloween’s. Yes there were pumpkins, trick or treaters, and gardens dressed in tacky mass produced faux horror props. But there was also the scary clown phenomenon that…
You’ve heard people say that certain books have become their bible, right? Well, between late nineteen seventy seven and early nineteen eighty, this novelisation was my version of the good book and I read and…
Anyone with a smidgeon of knowledge about popular music will no doubt be familiar with the name Hank Williams, either from the originator of the title, his son Hank Jnr or his grandson the Country…
With our planetary population now surpassing seven and a half billion, I guess it’s no surprise there are more writers out there than there used to be. But it’s only when you review a doorstopper…
Having turned down the opportunity to work with George Lucas on some space movie in 1977, toy makers Mattel were looking to release a series of action figures. After several failed lines, they placed their…
