Next to Du Maurier, Angela Carter is one of my all-time favourite storytellers. Her masterpiece The Bloody Chamber sees Carter spin subversively dark and sensual versions of familiar fairy tales and legends like Little Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in…
No, your eyes are not mistaken. I have ventured out of my not-so-brief blogging hiatus and an explanation as to where I’ve been and why will soon follow in another post someday, but first, I must tell you all about…
London 1885 As a turbulent and change-filled century draws to a close, there has never been a better time to alter your fortune. But for a beautiful young woman of limited means, Eliza’s choices appear to lie between the stifling…
An illustrated paperback that tells eleven exciting adventures about immortal warlock Magnus Bane. A fan-favourite character from Cassandra Clare’s Shadowhunter Chronicles, Magnus features in The Mortal Instruments, The Infernal Devices, Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy, City of Bones movie and the soon to…
The Night Circus is a phantasmagorical fairy tale set in Victorian London and tells the story of wandering magical circus that is open only from sunset to sunrise. Le Cirque des Rêves, the Circus of Dreams, features such wonders and “ethereal…