Author: Cassandra Parkin (website / twitter) UK Publisher: Salt Genre: Short stories, modern fairy tales, magic realism In contemporary America, an un-named college student sets out on an obsessive journey of discovery to collect and record the life-stories of total strangers. The interviews that follow have echoes of another, far more famous literary journey, undertaken long … Continue reading REVIEW: New World Fairy Tales – Cassandra Parkin
Editor: Dominik Parisien (website / twitter) and Navah Wolfe (twitter) UK Publisher: Saga Press Genre: Fantasy, Science Fiction Buy Now: ebook | paperback | hardcover A unique anthology of all-new stories that challenges authors to throw down the gauntlet in an epic genre battle and demands an answer to the age-old question: Who is more awesome—robots or … Continue reading REVIEW: Robots vs Fairies – ed. Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe
Author: J.K. Rowling (website / twitter) UK Publisher: Bloomsbury Genre: Children's books, fantasy, fairy tales Buy Now: Illustrated Hardcover | Standard Bloomsbury Paperback | ebook As familiar to many Hogwarts students as Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty are to Muggle children, The Tales of Beedle the Bard is a collection of popular stories written for young wizards and … Continue reading REVIEW: The Tales of Beedle The Bard – J.K. Rowling
Author: Roxane Gay (website / twitter) UK Publisher: Corsair Genre: short stories, literary fiction, magic realism Buy now: ebook | paperback The women in these stories live lives of privilege and of poverty, are in marriages both loving and haunted by past crimes or emotional blackmail. A pair of sisters, grown now, have been inseparable … Continue reading REVIEW: Difficult Women – Roxane Gay
