Though I haven’t seen it, I believe that the first chapter of my novel, The Stars Askew, is printed at the end of Unwrapped Sky. The title comes from a Victor Serge poem. Here’s the stanza which serves as an epigraph at the start of the book. If we roused the peoples and made the […]
Read more +Want to read a few reviews of Unwrapped Sky? Here are a few. Check them out: Bookplank Newtown Book Review Bookworm Blues Grimdark Reader Wall Street Journal
Read more +There have been good reviews of Unwrapped Sky and bad ones. Ones which decried its over-seriousness, ones which feted its richness. Those who felt it moved too slowly, others that it was a gripping meditation on means and ends. Locus magazine put it on its recommended reading list for 2014. But only one person has […]
Read more +I’ve done an interview with the kind folks at Civilian Reader here.
Read more +It has popped up again, that infuriating discussion whereby genre writers have to defend themselves against the literati. It seems to happen everytime a famous so-called ‘literary’ writer tries their hand at genre. The latest is Ishiguro’s turn to fantasy, The Buried Giant. Across the Anglophone world, one senses the collective puzzlement of reviewers, used […]
Read more +Yep, for ‘First Novel”. Also, Ann and Jeff Vandermeer’s Time Traveler’s Almanac is there, and it features a favourite story of mine, ‘Domine’. Very pleased to see Ben Peek’s The Godless , Angela Slatter’s Bitterwood Bible, Jannen Webb’s Death and the Blue Elephant and Rosaleen Love’s Secret Lives of Books there too. A good day! […]
Read more +I’ve reviewed William Gibson’s new novel for the Age and the SHM. It’s available here.
Read more +The Godless by Ben Peek My rating: 5 of 5 stars Ben’s a friend of mine, but regardless, he’s produced a very fine book. Truth be told, I’m not a huge fantasy fan: it’s a genre plagued by cliché and loaded with genre conventions. Or perhaps I should rephrase this: fantasy too often doesn’t live […]
Read more +A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940 by William R. Trotter My rating: 4 of 5 stars Written before he had access to the Soviet archives, Trotter’s book is lively and full of interesting anecdotes. The most interesting part is the early chapter on the reasons for the war. Trotter doesn’t – as […]
Read more +Happy that “Unwrapped Sky” came in at number 2 of Grimdark Reader’s Year’s Best list!
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