To embark upon a mythic journey one needs a guide. Martin Shaw, who gave up a lucrative music contract to live in a tent in the wild borderlands of Wales for four years and pursue the study of myth, has an excellent resumé for the job.... Read More

While most stories about the addition of a younger sibling focus on sibling rivalry and making the older sibling feel special, this clever picture book takes a different approach. A young girl exudes confidence, not jealousy, as she... Read More

A young necromancer and a band of lightwielders take center stage in J. R. Bailey’s exciting fantasy tale. In Impure: Resurrection, necromancer Koristad Altessor seeks revenge for the death of his family at the hands of the Vampire... Read More

“Memo to office bores, puffed-up marketers and blokes who rock on the balls of their feet while jiggling the change in their pocket: say what you mean. Your jargon phrases, weasel words and waffle are doing our heads in.” This is the... Read More

The line between television and real life, never clear to begin with, has grown a bit foggier with the release of Leon Logothetis’ new memoir, "Amazing Adventures of a Nobody". Based on the reality-television show by the same name,... Read More

In the general silence of a Cistercian abbey, one might hope for the numinous to reveal itself—and so it does in John Slater’s poems. From the very first poem in this first collection, Slater, a Cistercian monk, promises that “here... Read More

“The critic,” writes Eric Ormsby, “must stimulate curiosity but he or she must also appeal to our innate sense of justice. Like it or not, the critic is a judge…We may flinch from the ‘judgmental’ but at the same time, I... Read More

With the loss of an extremely powerful weapon known as the Antiquitas Trident, a great tragedy has befallen the Shamalan Empire of Pangrelor, the one true world. The benevolent Shamalans have been betrayed and nearly wiped out, and... Read More