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  • 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: 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…

  • Recommended reading: Katherine Arden, Image Comics, Ursula, K. Le Guin

    Recommended reading: Katherine Arden, Image Comics, Ursula, K. Le Guin

      The Girl in the Tower By Katherine Arden The Girl in the Tower is the sequel to the amazing Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden. We reviewed The Bear and the Nightingale in Cinders Says in our very first issue, and we were delighted with the dark, wintery Russian fairy tale. The story continues…

  • Book Review- Not if I save you First by Ally Carter

    Book Review- Not if I save you First by Ally Carter

    How many times have you thought – life as a secret service agent must be fun? Many? Me too. Well, Maddie Manchester knows exactly what it’s like. Because her father was one. He isn’t anymore, because, well, that’s what happens when your father takes a bullet for the president. He tends to re-think his priorities…

  • Faerie Queen – An Interview with Holly Black

    Faerie Queen – An Interview with Holly Black

    Over the last ten years, bestselling author Holly Black has rightly earned the title of ‘Faerie Queen’. She weaves a Faerie world that is dangerous and bloodthirsty, far from being a dream come true, these worlds are more like your darkest nightmares brought to life. Méabh McDonnell spoke to Holly about her experience writing her…

  • Recommended Reads: Frances Hardinge, Seanan Maguire, Joanne M Harris

    A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge Following on from the success of The Lie Tree, A Skinful of Shadows is Frances Hardinge’s next big hit. A Skinful of Shadows is a dark YA historical fantasy set in the early part of the English Civil War. Makepeace is an illegitimate daughter of the aristocratic Fellmotte…

  • Happy International Women’s Day! Cinders Reading List

    Happy International Women’s Day! Cinders Reading List

    Happy international women’s day to all of the friends, mothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins, co-workers, inspirations and activists out there! You all inspire us daily and make us take pride in who we are and make us choose who we want to be. This year our thanks go out to all of the brave women…

  • Recommended Reads: JK Rowling, Aline Brosh McKenna, Anna Marie McLemore

    First published in Cinders Magazine Volume one Issue Six Cormoran Strike Series What with the BBC’s recent release of Strike: The Cuckcoo’s Calling and Strike: The Silkworm, we decided to revisit JK Rowling’s fantastic detective series. Writing as Robert Galbraith the series follows veteran private detective Cormoran Strike and his intelligent partner, Robin Ellacott. Rowling’s…

  • Best books of 2017 part two

      The Language of Thorns by Leigh Bardugo Leigh Bardugo is a perennial favourite of ours in Cinders, we really enjoyed her Six of Crows series and her recent Wonder Woman story Warbringer has been hailed as one of the best ever renditions of Diana of Thymiscera. The Language of Thorns however is somehting different, …

  • Bell, book and candle – interview with Moïra Fowley Doyle

    Magic, mysticism and mystery are at the core of Moïra Fowley-Doyle’s novels, The Accident Season and this year’s The Spellbook of the Lost and Found. Set in rural Ireland they take normal girls and unravel the secrets of their past and defeat the demons of their present with spells, enchantment and dreams. We chatted to…