Seven Miles of Steel Thistles

 ' Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all...

In all kinds of mythologies there are stories about sailing across the sea to a mystical land.  Maybe peoples of all races and all times h...

A little preview - a little taster - The table of contents for the forthcoming Datlow and Windling YA dystopian anthology, 'AFTER ...

Gillian Philip’s first YA fantasy, ‘Firebrand’, was one of the best books I read last year. I talked about it in my introduction to Gill...

Every now and then you come across a book that’s just different.   It might be a one-off by an author who puts everything she or he has to s...

Oral storytelling necessitates a framework.  Anyone who’s tried singing or storytelling or in any way performing, for that’s what it is, in ...

Candy Gourlay was a young journalist writing for the opposition during the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines.  After the...