CHRISTMAS IS ALMOST HERE SO AWFULLY BIG REVIEWS IS TAKING A SHORT BREAK. WE'LL BE BACK AGAIN AT THE START OF JANUARY 2017 UNTIL THE...

I wanted to take more time to read this lovely book, a collection (with amendments and additions) of Katherine Langrish’s posts i...

Dinosaurs in space.  DINOSAURS IN SPACE! I could just leave my review there, because let's face it, that is an awesome enough prem...

"Everyone has to believe in something," says Amity Vancour's little brother, Hal. He means, of course, that people nee...

Every town has at least one: that little row of shops that you barely even look at, that you almost forget about till you need a pint of...

He's a young apprentice in a world of dark magic, he's destined to battle world-threatening monsters, and he's not very good...

It's a little known fact (and new to me) that Winston Churchill was a bit of an occultist who consulted mediums and considered himse...

“It was always hardest for Fox.” Siffrin, emissary of the fox Elders, tells us so in this enchanting, gripping animal fantasy b...

We’ll never know how it should have ended. At least, we’ll never know how it would have ended, had Diana Wynne Jones not died before...

So Frances Hardinge has the coolest style, especially when it comes to hats and gorgeous long coats. I was at the Fantasy WorldCon in Br...

There's something especially exciting about diving into a book when you really don't have a clue what awaits. I knew that Fiona D...

Salvage comes with an alarming tagline: Not everything that’s broken can be mended. Maybe that’s what gave me a mounting sense of dr...

Honestly, that Helen Grant looks such a sweet girl. I'd like to say that The Sea Change is a delight, but of course that wouldn...

Bryony Pearce does a very good line in unstraightforward heroines. Her debut novel Angel's Fury  featured the anything-but-easy Cassi...

Real Vampires - as the ageless Spike would tell you in many a fetching internet meme - Don't Sparkle. Anne Rooney's don't, th...