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Marked, by Sue Tingey Published 2015 by Jo Fletcher Books First read of the books acquired at FantasyCon 2015 is Sue Tingey’s Marked, book 1 of the Soulseer Chronicles. It is the story of a woman, Lucky de Salle, who sees the dead and makes a living helping them pass on. Her best friend is…
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Dreaming the Bull is the second of Manda Scott’s Boudica series and covers the period AD 47-54. Breaca and Caradoc, war leaders of the Britons, are in Wales preparing to meet the Roman invasion. Breaca’s brother Ban has become a Roman and is part of the army that Breaca must fight. Inevitably, they lose and…
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At FantasyCon 2015 one the panels discussed why people choose a book out of the thousands available to them. Some people go for covers, some like a good blurb, a few will read the first page. Me, I love a great title. What about you?
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Blue Remembered Earth, by Alastair Reynolds, is the first in the Poseidon’s Children sequence. Set one hundred and fifty years in the future, in a utopian society in which African is the dominant geographical power on earth, the moon and Mars are colonised, and asteroids are mined for water and minerals, the story centres around…
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Some years ago, I found myself with hundreds of unread books due to buying more books than I was reading. I set myself a challenge to read all those books. I didn’t quite make it. I read a lot. I gave away a lot; ones I’d never read and classics that I could get free…
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My loot from FantasyCon 2015! Thanks to the authors and publishers giving these titles away. I’m looking forward to reading them.
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I went to FantasyCon 2015 this weekend and had a great time. It was my first time at the conference and I’ll definitely be going back. Highlights were: meeting publishers, agents and writers. free books! finding out about London-based writing groups. I went to ten workshops and panels covering topics such as managing your anxiety,…
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Regular readers of this blog will know that I’m a fan of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher books. They’re a comfort read. I know what I’m getting and I know I’m going to like it. I don’t expect to be surprised. In Make Me, Reacher arrives in a small town called Mother’s Rest. He’s there on…
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