alternate history
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This is my fifth book of HG Parry’s and she never fails to impress. Like The Magician’s Daughter before it, this is a gentler, more involved story than the Magical Histories. But this also has a fullness that the previous book did not, following every moment of the deep friendships that this book is about…
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“We’re coming to get you. Me and Alice and Ribs, we’re coming. There’s a second orsine. Were going to find it and then I’m going through it, to find you. I’ll bring you out. Can you hear me? Mar? Can you hear me?” He shook his small head. He tried to warn Charlie but no…
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This is an exceptional addition to the world of Her Majesty’s Royal Coven, establishing not only the idea of a community of witches and warlocks at the highest levels of British society, but also the rich diversity of magic and its grey relationship with heaven and hell alike. But the incredible success of this slim…
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I think the best indication of my response to HG Parry’s, The Magician’s Daughter, is that I cannot wait to be able to give this book to my own daughter. This is, unashamedly, just a story about growing up, with a fairly straightforward plot, but it’s also cleverly constructed, immaculately paced and the prose is…
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Babel, Or The Necessity of Violence. An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution. Audiobook read by Chris Lew Kum Hoi and Billie Fulfprd Brown. Babel is an extraordinary book, a rich and deeply personal story. Robin Swift, taken from his native Canton and the arms of his dead mother, moulded into a facsimile of…
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Another fantastic magical history! Finding a way to weave an alternate plot into established history is no easy task, and often historical fiction finds greater freedom by looking at minor figures, on the fringe of history, to find the wiggle room to invent. But, as HG Parry so recently showed with her Shadow Histories duology,…
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Ask me right now who my favourite author is, it’s HG Parry. And, A Radical Act of Free Magic is my favourite book. It’s probably the closeness of just finishing, and I’ll probably qualify the feeling later, but today: no book beats this one.
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HG Parry’s, A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians is an astounding book, and I really can’t say when I last read a novel as good as this one. I try, to the best of my ability, to only post recommendations for books I love, and I’m always writing reviews full of praise, so it…
Damien Kelly 