Book Review: ‘The Jealous’ by Laury Silvers
The Jealous, book two of the “Sufi Mystery Quartet”, by Laury Silvers, returns readers to the streets of circa 900 AD Baghdad. It’s among the dusty streets of the city that Silvers brings both her...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘All The Horses of Iceland’ by Sarah Tolmie
All The Horses of Iceland by Sarah Tolmie, published by Tor books, is not your usual fantasy novel. In fact, its not your typical book period. Tolmie has created a magical tale, told in the style of a...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘All The Seas of the World’ by Guy Gavriel Kay
All The Seas of the World by Guy Gavriel Kay, published by Penguin/Random House, brings readers back into the world he first introduced us to in A Brightness Long Ago and Children of Earth and Sky....
View ArticleBook Review: ‘Flint and Mirror’ by John Crowley
Flint and Mirror In Flint and Mirror John Crowley takes readers back to Elizabethan England. More specifically, we are carried across the Irish Sea to ever-restive and unsettled Catholic Ireland which...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘Austral’ by Carlos Fonseca
Austral In his new book, Austral, Carlos Fonseca takes readers down the winding path of memory, history, and language and paints a picture of how the three interweave and interconnect. In a story...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘Impossible Histories’ by Hal Johnson from Odd Dot
Impossible Histories Impossible Histories by Hal Johnson, published by Macmillan/Odd Dot, takes history and spins it on its head in unexpected ways. Johnson has already proven himself as a player with...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘No One Prayed Over Their Graves’ by Khaled Khalifa
‘No One Prayed Over Their Graves’ No One Prayed Over Their Graves by Khaled Khalifa is set in a Syria unrecognizable to modern eyes. At the end of the 19th century, Syria, and the rest of the Arab...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘The Peace’ by Laury Silvers
Sufi Mystery Series The Peace, the fourth and final book in Larry Silvers’ “The Sufi Mystery Quartet” , returns readers to the streets of 10th century Baghdad. Amid the dust and the noise of the...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘Ndima Ndima’ by Tsitsi Mapepa, from Catalyst Press
Ndima Ndima Ndima Ndima by Tsitsi Mapepa, published by Catalyst Press, shows the human condition. Its story traces the lives of Zuva and her daughter Nyeredzi through the turbulent 1990s in Zimbabwe....
View ArticleBook Review: ‘The Book of Everlasting Things’ by Aanchal Malhotra
India & Pakistan In The Book of Everlasting Things Aanchal Malhotra takes readers on a journey into the well of sadness that was created by the partition of the Indian subcontinent into Pakistan...
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