Category: Books and Authors

  • Enter the Dragon – Interview with Samantha Shannon

    Enter the Dragon – Interview with Samantha Shannon

    There was never a single eureka moment for this book, as there was with The Bone Season – it was a few different ideas coming together over twenty years. I can trace the thread of inspiration right the way back to my fifth birthday, when I first saw Dragonheart. That film sparked a lifelong love…

  • Autumn Books Preview: Outrun the Wind by Elizabeth Tammi

    Autumn Books Preview: Outrun the Wind by Elizabeth Tammi

    Do you like myths? Fantasy? Ancient Greeks? Love stories? Then Outrun the Wind is the book for you. Taking us on a breakneck tour of some of the most famous Greek gods and their domain Outrun the Wind tells the story of two girls who find themselves in debt to two of the most ruthless…

  • Finding Friendship – An Interview with Chloe Seager

    Finding Friendship – An Interview with Chloe Seager

    Friendship can be tough to navigate, especially online! That’s certainly something that Emma Nash can relate to. Emma is the main character in Chloe Seager’s new series. The second book in the series, Friendship Fails of Emma Nash is out soon and we got speaking to Chloe about friendship, the internet and empowering girls online!…

  • Autumn Books Preview: Cathedral of Myth and Bone

    Autumn Books Preview: Cathedral of Myth and Bone

    If you haven’t read Kat Howard’s Roses and Rot yet you are missing out. Especially if dark, drifting, fantasy is your thing. Her stories are never saccharine and always pack a punch. That’s why we were overjoyed with A Cathedral of Myth and Bone, a series of short stories dealing with the weird and wonderful in the most magical way. With stories dealing…

  • Autumn Books Preview :#Fashion Victim by Amina Akhtar

    Autumn Books Preview :#Fashion Victim by Amina Akhtar

    Fashion Victim is like fashion itself, cut throat, vicious and murderous… Because that’s exactly what working in the fashion industry is like. Anya St Clair is a girl with a mission. She has worked incredibly hard throughout her career to make it to the top. To work at exclusive fashion magazine La Vie, she has…

  • Autumn Books Preview: The Distance Between me and the Cherry Tree by Paola Peretti

    Autumn Books Preview: The Distance Between me and the Cherry Tree by Paola Peretti

    The Distance Between Me and The Cherry Tree by Paola Peretti is a story told with such honesty and matter-of-fact bravery that it will stick with you long after you leave its pages. It tells the story of 9 year old Mafalda, who is slowly losing her sight due to a genetic disorder known as Stargadt Disease which…

  • Autumn Books Preview: Girls Resist by Kaelyn Rich

    Autumn Books Preview: Girls Resist by Kaelyn Rich

    Girls resist is the guide book we all needed as teenagers – and perhaps still need in our lives. Released by Quirk Books Girls Resist is a guide for every activist girl out there. It would be the perfect gift for any girl, deftly explaining terms like privilege and the glass ceiling and micro aggressions…

  • Autumn books preview: Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor

    Autumn books preview: Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor

    Just out this week, Laini Taylor’s Muse of Nightmares is one of our most anticipated YA reads of this year and it did not disappoint! I cannot fully express just how much I have been looking forward to reading the Muse of Nightmares. Along with being a massive Laini Taylor fan, I’ve been desperately dying…

  • Three fantasy novels you don’t want to miss: Albert, Cogman, and Mostyn

    Three fantasy novels you don’t want to miss: Albert, Cogman, and Mostyn

      The Hazel Wood By Melissa Albert  Was the original Alice in Wonderland a little too tame for your taste? Are the Grimm Brothers not dark enough for you? Are you hungering for something a little creepier in your childhood fantasy heroines? Then by all means pick up a copy of The Hazel Wood by…

  • Book Review: The Transfigured Hart by Jane Yolen

    Book Review: The Transfigured Hart by Jane Yolen

    Originally released in 1975, The Transfigured Hart is a beautiful, sweet novella by Jane Yolen. Proving that the world-renowned fantasy author has nigh universal appeal, the digital re-release by Tachyon Books reads as though the book was released a week ago, sans the presence of smart phones or computer technology.  The story centers around two…