The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway’s interactions with Jay Gatsby, the mysterious millionaire with an obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan
This past week saw the nominations for the 60th Annual Nebula Awards Finalists. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association announced a shortlist of six novels for work published in 2024.
South Africa is multiracial, multilingual and multicultural and this is reflected in the fantastic literature emanating from the country. Enjoy 6 South African Books Everyone Should Read!
This past week saw the release of the International Booker Prize 2025 Longlist. Notable this year was that all the nominations were for authors making their first appearance on a Booker Prize List.
Published in 1834, Kirdjali by Alexander Pushkin tells the tale of the soldier Kirdjali and his swashbuckling adventures.
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway’s interactions with Jay Gatsby, the mysterious millionaire with an obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan
The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway by Baroness Orczy was originally published in 1901. When a young woman is poisoned on a London subway train, the police searching for her killer appear to be on the wrong track.
The Mantle by Nikolai Gogol was originally published in 1842. It describes how Russian bureaucracy turns everyone into a ghost of each other.
Coming in April we have a fantastic short story collection by Lydia Millett and the latest novel by the fabulous Sayaka Murata. Enjoy 5 Sensational New Books for April 2025.
This past week saw the nominations for the 60th Annual Nebula Awards Finalists. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association announced a shortlist of six novels for work published in 2024.
From classic tales of the frontier to modern novels that twist in new directions, test your knowledge of the Western genre with The Wild Western Book Quiz
The Man in the Passage by G. K. Chesterton was published in 1913. When a man’s body is found in a passage, the suspect must be found and Father Brown is on the case.
A Report For An Academy by Franz Kafka was written and published in 1917. It tells the tale of an ape explaining his slow and painful domestication to the level of a cultured European.
The Creatures That Time Forgot by Ray Bradbury was first published in Planet Stories in 1946. The story is about short-lived humans on a planet similar to Mercury.
