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The Sourdough Posts: The Shadow Tree
Alas, a Rackham will have to do.
So, I’ve been sort of missing writing about The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings and I thought ‘Why not give Sourdough and Other Stories the same
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The Weekend Australian reviews The Bitterwood Bible
Much excitement here this morning to find that George Williams has reviewed The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings in The Weekend Australian‘s arts section. Much dancing and running in circles making loud noises. Or, you know, something more dignified.
FANS of fantasy fiction
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Goodreads competition: Black-Winged Angels
And so in the lead-up to Whatevermas I’m running another book and bag giveaway on Goodreads. The prize is a signed limited edition hardcover of my Black-Winged Angels collection, with illustrations by Kathleen Jennings and an Introduction by Juliet
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SF Signal reveiws The Bitterwood Bible
The wonderful Haralambi Markov has reviewed The Bitterwood Bible over at SF Signal.
MY REVIEW:
PROS: Exquisite prose; a shared world where the stories bleed into each other to establish a vibrant and sprawling mythology; complex portrayal
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Spectral Book of Horror Stories: Helen Marshall’s Funeral Rites
Helen Marshall is the author of the British Fantasy award-winning Hair Side, Flesh Side (which is indeed brilliant), Gifts for the One Who Comes After and The Sex Lives of Monsters, as well as many short stories scattered
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Exegesis, Part the Third: Mosaic
Kay Nielsen
Continuing the posts of the exegetical component of my PhD – no criticism intended, merely analysis. This section looks at mosaic novels and other forms of fragmented storytelling.
Part Three: Mosaic
‘My lies and the fragments
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New books!
Very happy to find these on the doorstep this morn. 
Angela Carter, hallowed be her name.
New Wine in Old Bottles: A Meditation on Writing
Arthur Rackman's Little Match Girl
(This is an extract from my MA thesis from 2006, and is a meditation on my own writing of Black-Winged Angels and Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Donoghue’s Kissing the
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A wowie-kazowie review over at Crikey (no less)
A truly fabulous review of The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales* by guest reviewer Lyndon Riggall on Angela Meyer’s LiteraryMinded blog (she who is Queen of the Bloggeist). Thus, I do snoopy dance.
Snippet:
For those of you who will read
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