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Pagpag by J Marcello Boromeo in Bureau Dispatch When you go home from a funeral you should make a stop along the way. For coffee or food or just somewhere. This […]

The author of the controversial Will and Testament reopens old wounds in this gripping account of family traumaLast time the Norwegian author Vigdis Hjorth wrote […]

STM Publishing – December 2022 Springer Nature acquires Research Square Company Springer Nature has increased its investment in Research Square Company to take f […]

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The American author on finding comfort in cookbooks, the allure of Jane Austen, and how Octavia Butler opened her mind to science fictionMy earliest reading […]

Liner Notes for my story The Standbridge Seven The last Strandbridge Tale for now and it’s back to the pub. Or rather it’s a pub crawl, and also a magic rit […]

Futureland: Battle for the Park. H.D. Hunter. 2022. [November] 320 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: Look, you’d probably think I was the luckiest kid in the […]

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Set in the Central Valley of the 1980s, these rich short stories about migrant workers speak of longing, loneliness and vulnerabilityAmerican writer Manuel Muñoz […]

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The former creative director of Barney’s remembers a beautifully transgressive moment in pop cultureIn an age when discussions of gender so often come with a s […]

Sonic The Hedgehog 2 Sonic’s back, he wants to be a superhero but that doesn’t always work out too well. But he is trusted enough that when his human fri […]

I used Flick to make a game about Godzilla, KISS/MARRY/KILL ALL MONSTERS. It’s on itch.io at the link.It SAYS kiss Mum, it’s not rude!

Word of the Week: EldritchEldritch is a word meaning something otherworldly, weird, ghostly, or uncanny.Although a fairly old word, Eldritch has had something of […]

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Last Things by Elvis Bego in Bureau Dispatch Tilney lives in a village of 137 houses arranged in a cone. He’s been forgetting things and people there have been d […]

Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia. Brandon Sanderson. 2009. 299 pages. [Source: Library] First sentence: So there I was, hanging upside down underneath a […]

The Christmas Bookshop. Jenny Colgan. 2021. 336 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: “But it’s August!” said Carmen into the phone, putting down her book. […]