I’ve just posted my latest Book Recommendation, Philip Reeve‘s Goblins – a book that absolutely delivers what it promises…
I knew I was going to have a good time when the book’s blurb started off by describing its protagonist being exiled.
By catapult.
This is, of course, a concept I’ve mentioned several times in my own writing.
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