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- What’s New for the 16th of August: Deborah Grabien’s music criticism essays; new Americana and jazz, and some music for the Dog Days of Summer
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Midsomer Strangeness
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Contradances
- What’s New for the 26th of July: Witches in fiction, both books and film; an Americana reissue and some music on a smoky theme
- A Kinrowan Estate story: chicken pot pieces
- What’s New for the 19th of July: Charles de Lint’s Ottawa novels with a quote from Drink Down the Moon, Gary’s review of Nordic fiddle music, It’s Michele Walther and Irina Behrendt playing Aaron Copland’s ‘Hoe Down’ from his Rodeo album
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Midsomer Odd Things
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Library and Its Librarian
- What’s New for the Fifth of July: Remembering Jane Yolen; some new Americana and jazz music; Fishing Blues
- A Kinrowan Estate Story: Recursive Loops
- What’s New for June 21: Jennifer Stevenson’s ‘Solstice’
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Turkish Coffee
- What’s New for the 7th of June: Foxes in literature, live Balkan music, comforting jazz, Americana jazz, and wonderfully weird fusion jazz; and John Fogerty live
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Bloodied Kings
- What’s New for the 24th of May: Gary’s Review of Elizabeth Bear’s White Space novels, iain’s review of the Lonely Signal Burns novellas by her, she reading her own story, ‘The Chains That You Refuse’, and I see Gary has some tasty music reviews fir us as well
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Our Greensward
- What’s New for the 10th of May: books reviewed by Jennifer Stevenson, music by Teddy Thompson, Americana music from all over, and some live music from John Fogerty
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Walk
- What’s New for the 26th of April: the nature of Stories; some new and newish SF, plus new world, jazz, folk and Americana music
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Spring Day
- What’s New for the 12th of April: Some new and recent SF; new Americana, Norwegian folk rock and jazz; and thoughts on War For The Oaks
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Unified Theory of Libraries (A Letter to Anna)
- What’s New for the 29th of March: Beer and spirits, in song and text, some new Scandinavian fiddle music and jazz flute music, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Ghostly Librarian
- What’s New for the 15th of March: some DeLint stories for early spring; lots of polskas, Serbian folk rock, progressive jazz, and Nordic music from the archives
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Hedge Witches
- What’s New for the 1st of March: Emma Bull’s War for The Oaks, Rosanne Cash’s ‘Runaway Train’, Johnny Cash at San Quentin, plus new Americana and jazz music
- A Kinrorwan Estate story: Cranachanh
- What’s New for the 15th of February: Some Seanan McGuire fantasy, Alison Bechdel’s latest, Pamela Dean’s Tam Lin; Nordic sounds, old time, Americana and Tex-Mex music
- What’s New for the 1st of February: Kage Baker retrospective; new Americana, Buddhist chants and Finnish songs, new and reissued jazz, and more
Category Archives: Books
Ella King’s Bad Fruit
Ella King’s Bad Fruit is a painful but brilliant book. Dealing with domestic life among a family with behavior that can only be described as abusive, the plot builds as strange happenings stack one atop another until something inevitably has … Continue reading
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Anthony Horowitz’s A Line to Kill
Anthony Horowitz’s A Line to Kill is the latest book teaming a fictionalized version of the author with detective Daniel Hawthorne. On this occasion the two are invited to an event on the island Alderney, where even before the bodies … Continue reading
Tove Alsterdal’s You Will Never Be Found
Tove Altserdal’s You Will Never Be Found is the second book featuring her detective Eira Sjödin. As a sequel to We Know you Remember, this book has a lot to live up to given that volume’s slate of awards. In … Continue reading
Claire Douglas’s The Girls Who Disappeared
Claire Douglas’s The Girls Who Disappeared is the latest novel from a woman with a great deal of experience in the form. It also makes clever use of the True Crime podcast genre. It’s not a rare setup these days, … Continue reading
Anna Elliott and Charles Veley’s The Crown Jewel Mystery (Sherlock Holmes and Lucy James Mystery #0.5)
Lucy James, an American actress, arrives in London, officially for a position she has been offered in the D’Oyly Carte Opera. In reality, her main motivation is to try to discover the identity of her father. The stipend that supported … Continue reading
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Ben Aaronovitch‘s Foxglove Summer (Rivers of London #5)
Two children have gone missing in Herefordshire, and Peter Grant is sent out to check on a retired old wizard in the area, just in case he might be involved (or aware of something the regular police won’t ask him … Continue reading
Kristine Kathryn Rusch‘s Ten Little Fen: A Spade/Paladin Conundrum
Spade, SMoF (Secret Master of Fandom), forensic accountant, and amateur detective for sf conventions when necessary, is program director of SierraCon, an sf convention held at a relatively isolated hotel in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, just barely on the California … Continue reading
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Kristine Kathryn Rusch‘s The Early Conundrums: A Spade/Paladin Collection
Spade is a SMoF, a Secret Master of Fandom; i.e., one of the people who travel the country helping fan-run science fiction conventions operate successfully. He’s mainly the guy who understands the finance side of putting on a non-profit, fan-run … Continue reading
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Amanda Kool’s Resembling Lepus
Amanda Kool’s Resembling Lepus is a startling new mystery sci-fi novel created by an up and coming author in the genre. The story opens with a detective looking in on a crime scene, and it is brilliantly written and how … Continue reading
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Isaac Fellman’s The Two Doctors Górski
Isaac Fellman’s The Two Doctors Górski is an interesting science fantasy novel from a up-and-coming author. The basic setup of a graduate student dealing with past trauma and a difficult current advisor is easily relatable, but the expansion on that … Continue reading
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