Everfair by Nisi Shawl is an alternative history set in the Belgian Congo during King Leopold II's reign. Instead of years of slavery, racism, and genocide a congregation of Fabian Socialist from Great Britain…
Spellbook of the Lost and Found - Moïra Fowley-Doyle's debut, The Accident Season, was a quiet roar of a book that used suspenseful magic to get at some extremely heavy issues, and her second…
Please proceed calmly to the podcast, folks - there's no need for alarm! It's not actually the Dark Mark, just a podcast about one. Or many. Or all of them. This week, we veer toward…
How do you top Nevernight, a book that's basically Harry Potter for assassins, complete with magical, stairway-shifting school accessible only by diving through something that really shouldn't be dived though? Well, actually the second installment…
Ladies and Gentlemen...let's get ready to rummmbbllleeee: Ireland takes on Bulgaria in the Quidditch World Cup! Who will win? Who will shoot a ball into a hoop thing? Who will catch the very…
Assassins are popular these days. His Fair Assassin trilogy, which I thought was going to be stupid but which was a dazzlingly well-researched historical and religious drama, and Godsgrave, which was a crazy-cool assassin…
Canteens out, campers! We're heading to the Scottish moors to do some glamping and catch a game. This week we learn that there are other people in the world besides British people, we get…
This isn't a podcast, it's your one-touch ticket to Funtown! (Sorry for the nausea - portkey technology is a bit wonky.) This week, we meet Amos and Cedric Diggory (go Hufflepuff!), take a journey…
Tad Williams begins a new journey in the world of Osten Ard with his new book The Witchwood Crown, the first book of a new trilogy The Last King of Osten Ard. Though earlier…
There's a quote from Angela Carter's "The Tiger's Bride" that I particularly like: "The tiger will never lie down with the lamb; he acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal. The lamb must learn…