Mark Charan Newton

A packed but fun weekend. On Saturday, I met up with James Long, who runs a tidy little review blog at Speculative Horizons. We managed to chat non-stop about books and life for a solid six hours. A thoroughly nice chap, who I hope to catch up with again at Alt Fiction later this month.
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Mythago Wood, by Robert Holdstock, is quite simply a beautiful book. It is a fantasy novel about the very nature of fantasy itself, about what it means to imagine.
Set after the Second World War, Stephen Huxley returns to his family home, Oak Lodge, on the outskirts of Ryhope Wood. It may appear like an ordinary [...]

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I’m a bit of a closet folkie, really loving it when summer’s on the horizon. You’d do well to find better musicianship than when watching a proper folk collective in full swing, each musician reading the next, feeding off the reaction of the gathered crowd. Plus they have cool instruments. Here’s something a little more [...]

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