Sometimes you are lucky enough to read exactly the right book at the right time. This was the case with "The Night Brother" and me. It...

Anyone who knows me knows I have an interest in both magic and women’s rights, making me the ideal audience for this historical analysis...

Lilith, is my female antagonist in The Starblood Trilogy. She is definitely a villain, although some have claimed she’s a feminist hero....

This is the second book by Rosie Garland that I have read and I thoroughly enjoyed both. They would be best described as dark fairy...

The forward to this novel was fascinating in its own right. Toni Morrison describes how black fiction is unfairly judged on the basis of...

I was given the hardback version of this book as a birthday present. It is beautiful to behold, shining like copper and looking like a...

It’s not as easy as it sounds. While tropes, clichés and stereotypes might be easy to spot in others work, they can become embedded in...

What to say about this book? Well the first thing to say was I almost didn't finish it. Parts of it made me spit with fury. Schopenhauer...

“Free Women of Spain” by Martha Ackelsberg made me consider my own relationship towards mainstream feminism or white liberal feminism,...

Witches Sluts Feminists is a slender volume. It positions itself as a primer on the connections between the three subjects in the title...

I was in court today. The wheels of justice move slowly and all that, and the event had happened six months before. I was a witness to...

Yesterday, for the October Frights blog hop I wrote about zombies, so today it's vampires. At the bottom of this post you'll find links...

Natsuo Kirino is an angry young woman. I understand and appreciate that in an author. I read her crime thriller "Out" before and...

Bag of shite! I had such high hopes for Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale. I loved Margaret Atwood's book when I read it years ago. I must read...

I read four novels “It Can't Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis (published in 1935), “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley (published in 1932),...

I once said “The concept of beauty is the straight jacket of the soul”. While others disagreed at that time I am returning to the idea...

There is a time-honoured tradition in horror that youngsters who have sex will be the first to die and the last person standing will be...

A while ago my writers' group was set a task to write an historic event through the eyes of a by-stander. This was my humble attempt. A...

With illustrations by Deborah Blount. Selkie David sipped champagne, nestled between blonde twins on a leather couch in an exclusive...

I thought for a long while that I didn't like sci-fi. I now realise that I just don't like white-male-centric sci-fi. I love this book...