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Loading ...Odalisque is the first book in Fiona McIntosh’s new fantasy series. It’s set in Percheron, which draws parrallels with (certainly Western views) of ancient arab cultures with all powerful leaders, woman who must remain covered and of course the Harem. Boaz at the tender age of 15 is now the new Zar, due to the [...]
(2 votes) Loading ...Rhian is now queen of Ethrea but all is far from well. Zandakar is in prison as his relationship with the Mijak Queen as been revealed, and her husband (King Alasdair) is increasingly jelious of her love.
(1 votes) Loading ...Football has come to that most ancient and well known city, Ankh-Morpork. But it’s not the football the ‘shove’ are used to, this is new football. And it’s fast with balls that go ‘gloing’ when you drop them…
(3 votes) Loading ...It amazes me that people still try and get into a competitive market such as advertising having never read a relevant book. And often without knowing anything about how the industry works, and even who some of the players are and great examples of their work.
(1 votes) Loading ...The Riven Kingdom is the second book in the Godspeaker series. Where the first book (Empress) concentrated on Hekat and her homeland of Mijak, the second is set in Ethrea. (Which is likely to please those who couldn’t get on with Hekat.) Ethrea is a small kingdom that has been living in peace for hundreds [...]
(3 votes) Loading ...The American Civil War was a truly brutal war that’s had a massive impact on how America has evolved to date. Just how much can be judged by Keegan’s closing statement: American socialism was stillborn on the battlefields of Shiloh and Gettysburg. It’s also one of the few wars where the loosing side wasn’t vilified [...]
(3 votes) Loading ...Her name is Hekat — And she will be slave to no man Empress is the first book in what should be a truly fantastic ‘Godspeaker’ series. The main herion (if she can be called so) is a girl named Hekat. She’s born into a misogynistic world where woman are often sold as slaves, and [...]
(1 votes) Loading ...Raven Blood Eye is the first book of what promises to be a fantastic series. It follows the life of Osric who ends up joining a band of Norsemen who form a Fellowship. A Fellowship made hard through trials of blood and camaraderie, and a distrinct lack of fear. An unabashed carnival of bloodletting and [...]
(2 votes) Loading ...History’s greatest cad is back in this, the seventh instalment of the Flashman Papers. For those that don’t know the Flashman Papers are the memoirs of the notorious bully of Tom Brown’s Schooldays. They were ‘discovered’ in a Leicestershire saleroom in 1966. Flashman and the Redskins covers two periods in Flashman’s madcap life; 1849-50 and [...]
(1 votes) Loading ...The brothers of the once King Robert (now dead) are fighting amongst themselves. They share no wish to unite against the powers of the usurping Lannister’s. Despite the protests of Lady Stark. The head of Lord Eddard Stark is rotting on a spike at King’s Landing and his suffering younger daughter, Sansa, is still betrothed [...]